Messages (iOS)
Messages app prototype for iOS
Notice: current state of the project is "for R&D purposes only"
Description
Disappointed with availabe libraries and components for replicating Messages app UI in iOS application, I decided to create my own solution. It shows how to build chat-alike user interface that allows sending and receiving messages. It's not "one size fits all", not perfect nor optimal. It's definately much simplier than some messaging-UI libraries, and because of this, easier to maintain and customize. Messages list is build using UICollectionView
managed by IGListKit library. There is no backend logic in this project - app uses mocked up service that simulates communication with server side.
Special thanks to turekj for help with developing simple solution to preserve UIScrollView
content offset when reloading data.
What's inside
UICollectionView
managed by IGListKitUICollectionViewLayout
that displays cells from bottom to top- Custom
UICollectionViewCell
for representing messages on the list - Workaround for preserving content offset when adding cells to
UICollectionView
- Pagination with
UIRefreshControl
that allows loading messages history - Custom toolbar for composing new messages
- Mocked up service that simulates communication with backend
License
Copyright © 2017 Dariusz Rybicki Darrarski
MIT License. You are allowed to use the source code commercially, but licence and copyright notice MUST be distributed along with it.