Cometchat Android V6 Migration

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Android development

Example prompts

• “upgrade cometchat android v5 to v6”
• “migrate android ui kit to v6”
• “v6 import paths android”
• “/cometchat-android-v6-migration”

Requirements

• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): FROM com.cometchat:chat-uikit-android 5.x (Java/XML Views, minSdk 24 — note the DIFFERENT artifact id; chatuikit-kotlin-android has no 5.x) TO 6.0.x — com.cometchat:chatuikit-kotlin-android (XML Views) or com.cometchat:chatuikit-compose-android (Compose) + chatuikit-core-android; Kotlin >=1.9 / AGP >=8; JVM 11; minSdk 28; compileSdk >=36; com.cometchat:chat-sdk-android ^5

Workflow steps

10 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Decide the cohort — staying on XML Views (chatuikit-kotlin-android, smallest diff) or moving to Compose (chatuikit-compose-android, a UI…
2. 2Raise minSdk to 28 and confirm Kotlin/AGP/JVM 11 are in place.
3. 3Swap the dependency to the 6.x artifact for the chosen cohort (+ the CometChat Maven repo, core §Install). Remove the v5 artifact — grep…
4. 4Rewrite imports (the bulk of the diff, mechanical)
5. 5Migrate init to v6 — the v6 default is CometChatUIKit.initFromSettings(context, callback) reading…
6. 6Events — replace every addListener/removeListener pair with a CometChatEvents.Events.collect { } in lifecycleScope (Views) or…
7. 7State — LiveData.observe(...) → collecting StateFlow in a lifecycle-aware scope.
8. 8Styling/theming — style objects → theme attributes (themes.xml extending CometChatTheme.DayNight) or Compose style data classes (→…
9. 9Compose only: rebuild the chat screens as composables (core's golden path / cometchat-android-v6-{kotlin,compose}-placement recipes) — XML…
10. 10Build, then run — fix per component using the docs page's "Component-by-Component Migration" section (fetch it…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 911b108. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are kotlin and java).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  FROM com.cometchat:chat-uikit-android 5.x (Java/XML Views, minSdk 24 — note the DIFFERENT artifact id; chatuikit-kotlin-android has no 5.x) TO 6.0.x — com.cometchat:chatuikit-kotlin-android (XML Views) or com.cometchat:chatuikit-compose-android (Compose) + chatuikit-core-android; Kotlin >=1.9 / AGP >=8; JVM 11; minSdk 28; compileSdk >=36; com.cometchat:chat-sdk-android ^5

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Cometchat Android V6 Migration loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 122 tokens; SKILL.md has 774 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~122

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~2.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cometchat/cometchat-skills at commit 911b108, republished under its MIT licence (© cometchat). 774 words, ~2,280 tokens.

name

cometchat-android-v6-migration

description

Upgrade an Android app from the CometChat v5 UI Kit (Java, XML Views) to v6 (Kotlin — XML Views or Jetpack Compose): artifact and package changes, the CometChatThreadedMessagesHeader rename, LiveData→StateFlow, events→CometChatEvents SharedFlow, style objects→theme attributes/style data classes, and minSdk 28. Triggers: 'upgrade cometchat android v5 to v6', 'migrate android ui kit to v6', 'v6 import paths android', 'cometchat android breaking changes'.

compatibility

FROM com.cometchat:chat-uikit-android 5.x (Java/XML Views, minSdk 24 — note the DIFFERENT artifact id; chatuikit-kotlin-android has no 5.x) TO 6.0.x — com.cometchat:chatuikit-kotlin-android (XML Views) or com.cometchat:chatuikit-compose-android (Compose) + chatuikit-core-android; Kotlin >=1.9 / AGP >=8; JVM 11; minSdk 28; compileSdk >=36; com.cometchat:chat-sdk-android ^5

license

MIT

metadata.author

CometChat

metadata.version

1.0.0

metadata.tags

cometchat android migration v5 v6 upgrade kotlin compose breaking-changes

// V5 (Java) — imports + init
import com.cometchat.chatuikit.shared.cometchatuikit.CometChatUIKit;
import com.cometchat.chatuikit.conversations.CometChatConversations;

// V6 (Kotlin, XML Views cohort)
import com.cometchat.uikit.core.CometChatUIKit
import com.cometchat.uikit.kotlin.presentation.conversations.ui.CometChatConversations

// V6 events — the old addListener/removeListener pair becomes a scoped collect
lifecycleScope.launch {
    CometChatEvents.messageEvents.collect { event -> /* when (event) { … } */ }
}

© cometchat, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/cometchat-android-v6-migration of cometchat/cometchat-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 911b108