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

Language:

Java

Owner:

TutorialsAndroid

Contributors:

TutorialsAndroid

License:

Apache License 2.0

Github Source Code Clone

Description:

MessageView

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

Library name change from Postui to MessageView.We have removed postui api instead of postui you can use message view api read the below docs.

Library Available at JitPack.io

Latest version of this library is migrated to androidx

Features

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

Sample Screen

See the below demo.This demo shows how the Kinda App is using message view library.

Installation

add gradle dependency to your dependency list:

Add it in your root build.gradle at the end of repositories:

allprojects {
    repositories {
        ...
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

dependencies {
         implementation 'com.github.TutorialsAndroid:MessageView:v4.0.19'
}

Use

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

<com.developer.messageview.MessageView
    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" />

        <!-- ... -->

</com.developer.messageview.MessageView>

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|false"

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 MessageView in normal mode including arrow.
• backgroundColorPressed sets background color of MessageView in pressed mode including arrow.
• cornerRadius sets corner radius of the box.
• showArrow shows / hides arrow from MessageView.

developed to make programming easy.

by Akshay Sunil Masram (akshaysunilmasram@yahoo.com)

License

• Apache Version 2.0

``` Copyright 2019 MessageView

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.