ChatMessageView

ChatMessageView helps you to create chat message view quickly like a typical chatting application. Its a container view, so you can add any type of message such as TextView or any customize TextView, ImageView, etc.

Features

1. Can have any child inside of it.
2. You can change color of ChatMessageView normal and pressed.
3. Adjustable arrow position (top, bottom, left, right)
4. Adjustable arrow gravity (start, end, center)
5. Chat view without arrow

Sample Screen

Installation

add gradle dependency to your dependency list:

dependencies {
  compile 'me.himanshusoni.chatmessageview:ChatMessageView:1.0.0'
}

Use

1. Include ChatMessageView in your xml of adapter view with content inside.

<me.himanshusoni.chatmessageview.ChatMessageView xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:backgroundColor="#88BABABA"
        app:backgroundColorPressed="#FFBABABA"
        app:cornerRadius="3dp" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/text"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Hello" />
            
            ...
            
    </me.himanshusoni.chatmessageview.ChatMessageView>

Customization

Attributes:

  app:arrowGravity="start|end|center"
  app:arrowPosition="right|left|top|bottom"
  app:arrowMargin="3dp"
  app:contentPadding="10dp"
  app:backgroundColor="#88BABABA"
  app:backgroundColorPressed="#FFBABABA"
  app:cornerRadius="3dp"
  app:showArrow="true"

Description:

• arrowGravity controls relative position of arrow. possible values are start,end and center. default is left.
• arrowPosition controls poition of the arrow outside the box. possible values are right,left,top and bottom. default is left.
• arrowMargin controls margin of arrow. If arrowPosition is left or right it controls top and bottom margin. else it controls left and right margin.
• contentPadding adjusts padding of content within the box.
• backgroundColor sets background color of ChatMessageView in normal mode including arrow.
• backgroundColorPressed sets background color of ChatMessageView in pressed mode including arrow.
• cornerRadius sets corner radius of the box.
• showArrow shows / hides arrow from ChatMessageView.

================== developed to make programming easy.

by Himanshu Soni ([email protected])