Improve date display, forward timestamps, and group creation flow#281
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Display Today, Yesterday, and weekday names for recent messages instead of raw dates in date separators. Closes monogram-android#87
Remove member selection gate to enable single-member group creation via TDLib's createBasicGroupChat API. Closes monogram-android#149
Display date alongside time for forwards/reposts that originated on a different day (e.g. '3 May, 14:30' instead of just '14:30'). Closes monogram-android#90
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Date separators in conversations currently show raw dates like "4 May" regardless of how recent the message is. This makes it hard to quickly gauge message recency at a glance.
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formatChatDayLabel()to display relative labels — "Today", "Yesterday", or the weekday name — for messages within the past week, falling back to the full date for older messages. The year-boundary edge case (e.g. Dec 31 → Jan 1) is handled correctly.Forwarded messages only showed the time of the original post, which loses context when the forward is from a different day. The forward header now shows the date alongside the time for non-today forwards (e.g. "3 May, 14:30").
Creating a group with only yourself was impossible because the member selection step required at least one other user before allowing the user to proceed. Both official Telegram clients allow this. The
isNotEmpty()gate on the member list has been removed so users can continue to the group info screen with zero members selected.Closes #87, #90, #149