element-hq / element-hq/element-x-android

Custom background image for a room

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T-Enhancement
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Kotlin
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Description

### Your use case

#### What would you like to do?
I'd like to be able to set a custom image for a given room

#### Why would you like to do it?
To give a better visual feedback on where I'm currently chatting

#### How would you like to achieve it?
It should be a local setting, not stored on server. A background can then be different on each device/client I'm connected

### Have you considered any alternatives?

_No response_

### Additional context

This seems linked to https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/discussions/625 and https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/5844 but they only talk about Element Web/Desktop.

I know that at least WhatsApp has this feature, and my homeserver's users are missing this feature.

### Are you willing to provide a PR?

No

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing room presentation and local per-device settings in the Android client; done means a room can display its own selected background image without storing it on the homeserver.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
kotlin
Domain
design, mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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