No displaying activity indicator when use Firestore/Pagination about react-native-chat-ui HOT 3 CLOSED

@demchenkoalex Yes i have this code:

firestore()
    .collection(`conversations/${conversationId}/messages`)
    .orderBy('createdAt', 'desc')
    .limit(LIMIT_PAGE)
    .onSnapshot(snapshot => {
      populateMessages(snapshot);
    });

So no have async method, I managed to encapsulate this in a Promise and this made the activityIndicator work.

return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
   firestore()
    .collection(`conversations/${conversationId}/messages`)
    .orderBy('createdAt', 'desc')
    .startAfter(lastDocument)
    .limit(LIMIT_PAGE)
    .onSnapshot(snapshot => {
      resolve();
    });
});

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Hey @nericode there is no other way unfortunately :( this is how it was designed. Do you have maybe other ideas? Because there are tons of pagination strategies, making an asynchronous function was the solution to fit everything, however I agree with you, it will not work for non asynchronous tasks. Is there a way in Firebase to make it asynchronous? I am wondering how they do it, because data still need to be loaded and how is it synchronous?

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Wow, thanks for sharing!

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