[isekovanic]

🎯 Goal

The backend now auto-translates polls, and stream-chat exposes the translations as name_i18n on the poll, text_i18n on options and answer_text_i18n on comments. They're already in our ^9.54.4, so no bump is needed. Until now the SDK always showed the original text. With this PR, polls show in the user's language, the same way auto-translated message text already does.

React counterpart: GetStream/stream-chat-react#3340.

Ticket:
https://linear.app/stream/issue/REACT-1344/support-automatic-poll-translations-in-the-react-sdk

🛠 Implementation details

The user's language is client.user.language, the same as for messages. Any text without a translation falls back to the original.

Translated:

• the question in the poll header and in the all-options and results dialogs
• option text in the message and in the results, including the vote button's accessibility label
• comments in the answers list
• the poll previews in the channel list, quoted replies and the thread list ("created: …", "voted: …")

There's no "View original" toggle. v9 has none for messages either, so polls always show the translation, like messages do. Editing your own comment still prefills the original text, not the translation.

API changes, all additive:

• New usePollTextTranslation() hook. It returns translate(original, i18n), for custom poll components.
• usePollState() also returns nameI18n.

The <lang>_text lookup lives in one internal helper, getTranslatedText, and useTranslatedMessage now uses it too. One edge case changes: a message whose i18n has the user's language key set to undefined now shows the original text instead of nothing.

Offline DB:

• The poll table gets name_i18n and description_i18n columns. Option and comment translations were already stored, inside the options and answers JSON. The description isn't displayed anywhere yet; it's stored so the poll round-trips intact.
• Both columns are always written, as null when the poll has no translation. The upsert skips undefined values, so leaving them out would keep a stale translation after the question is edited.
• dbVersion goes from 16 to 17, so the offline DB is rebuilt once after upgrade, as with earlier schema changes. The cache is fetched again, and offline actions that haven't synced yet are dropped.

🎨 UI Changes

The layout is unchanged; translated text replaces the original.

🧪 Testing

Unit tests cover:

• translated, partially translated and untranslated polls, in the message and in the dialogs
• a translation arriving through poll.updated
• the channel list and message previews
• offline storage: kept, replaced, cleared, and a poll that never had translations

On the iOS simulator I checked the poll message, the results and comments dialogs, and the channel preview, including a real vote. The demo app doesn't produce poll translations, so I injected poll.updated events with translations into the running client. Not checked on Android, and not checked with offline mode on a device.

To try it, you need an app with auto-translation enabled and a user whose language differs from the poll's.

☑️ Checklist

• I have signed the Stream CLA (required)
• PR targets the develop branch
• Documentation is updated
• New code is tested in main example apps, including all possible scenarios
  • SampleApp iOS and Android
  • Expo iOS and Android

🎯 Goal

🛠 Implementation details

🎨 UI Changes

iOS

Before	After

Android

Before	After

🧪 Testing

☑️ Checklist

• I have signed the Stream CLA (required)
• PR targets the develop branch
• Documentation is updated
• New code is tested in main example apps, including all possible scenarios
  • SampleApp iOS and Android
  • Expo iOS and Android

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Next releases

v9.12.0

9.12.0 (2026-11-05)

Features

• poll translations (#3917) (2617c70)

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SDK Size

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ai_components_size	163 KB	163 KB	0 B	🟢