Support starting a new DM conversation

[chrisbobbe]

This corresponds to the "New DM" and "New group DM" buttons which zulip-mobile has at the top of the DM-conversations screen.

Design

The design for this UI is in Figma: https://www.figma.com/design/1JTNtYo9memgW7vV6d0ygq/Zulip-Mobile?node-id=4923-3308&t=dosxggnU7UlsrbfI-0

Here's one screenshot:

For details, see the Figma doc.

Related issues

• An issue that will rely on this one: #385
• A previous phase: #119

[Khader-1]

Do we have any design expectations here?

[chrisbobbe]

I expect we'll want to wait for our designer to propose a design for this feature, yes.

[gnprice]

We have a design for this feature now; I've updated the description.

[Dhanesh-Sawant]

I would like to work on this issue

I have started it with adding the design when there are no dm's yet as required in #F385

[Dhanesh-Sawant]

this is just the test for search functionality in direct messages, the search box design is just for testing now & will finalize it once I finish doing for groups also

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fddda99a-053d-4f98-80cd-435ab6ec0f8c

[Dhanesh-Sawant]

Here I have implemented the functionality of starting a conversation with a person or in a group after clicking new dm button.

• be able to search for members
• add members to the selected users required for forming a group almost same as the required design(some changes are needed to be done further as this was just for testing).

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/2e6c0be2-df97-4ec9-a772-60534dccca9d

[chimnayajith]

The PR for this seems to be abandoned. I'd like to work on this issue.

[Dhanesh-Sawant]

hey @chimnayajith, I was caught up by something else, but I've started working on it again..