I've been dealing with a frustrating issue while working on my mobile chat app using Ionic, Angular, and Firebase. The message exchange functionality is fine, but I can't seem to get the auto-scroll feature to work when new messages are received. I've tried using $ionicScrollDelegate, scroll-glue Directive, jQuery functions, and more, but nothing seems to solve the problem.
This is the chat page
<div ng-controller="ChatController as chatCtrl" id="chats_page" class="upage-content vertical-col left hidden has-subheader">
<div class="bar bar-subheader subheader-chat">
<h2 class="title">{{chatCtrl.status}}</h2>
</div>
<div class="" data-uib="layout/row" data-ver="0" id="chatBox">
<ion-content id="autoscroll" class="widget uib_w_92 d-margins topbar" data-uib="ionic/list" data-ver="0" delegate-handle="mainScroll">
<ion-list scroll-glue>
<ion-item ng-repeat="msg in chatCtrl.messages" class="item widget uib_w_93 chat-cliente item-text-wrap" data-uib="ionic/list_item" data-ver="0" ng-class="chatCtrl.getRole(msg.role)">{{msg.text}}<a class="chat-time">{{msg.time}}</a>
</ion-item>
</ion-list>
</ion-content>
</div>
<div class="bar bar-footer footer-chat" >
<i class="placeholder-icon "></i>
<textarea type="text" name="msg" placeholder="Type your message..." class="chat-text" ng-disabled="chatCtrl.msgText()" ng-model="myMsg" ></textarea>
<button class="button ion-paper-airplane btn-chat-send" ng-click="chatCtrl.sendMsg(myMsg)" ng-disabled="chatCtrl.msgText()" id='btn_send_chat'></button>
</div>
</div>
Here's part of the ChatController code snippet:
angular.module('myApp')
.controller("ChatController", ['User','FireBaseApp','$firebase','$ionicLoading','$timeout','$ionicPlatform','$location','$ionicHistory','$timeout','$ionicPopup','$ionicScrollDelegate','$scope',function(User, FireBaseApp ,$firebase, $ionicLoading,$timeout,$ionicPlatform,$location,$ionicHistory,$timeout,$ionicPopup,$ionicScrollDelegate,$scope){
var self = this;
... relevant code here ...
self.sendMsg = function(msg){
$scope.myMsg = null;
$ionicScrollDelegate.scrollBottom();
}