I am trying to create simple messaging app just like the built one.
I want to reproduce the same effect speech bubbles as iMessage
.
I found a project from apple called MultipeerGroupChat which has that functionality.
The problem is It has a lot more than what I need making it hard to replicate, because of class dependencies. I dont need multipeer or sending images.I stripped a lot of code out already.
I now have a simple TableView
, I added the bubble images and 2 classes:
MessageView.h
Transcript.h
I narrowed down the issue to this table view delegate to display the bubbles:
// The individual cells depend on the type of Transcript at a given row. We have 3 row types (i.e. 3 custom cells) for text string messages, resource transfer progress, and completed image resources
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
// Get the transcript for this row
Transcript *transcript = [self.transcripts objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
// Check if it's an image progress, completed image, or text message
UITableViewCell *cell;
if (nil != transcript.imageUrl) {
// It's a completed image
cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"Image Cell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
// Get the image view
ImageView *imageView = (ImageView *)[cell viewWithTag:IMAGE_VIEW_TAG];
// Set up the image view for this transcript
imageView.transcript = transcript;
}
else if (nil != transcript.progress) {
// It's a resource transfer in progress
cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"Progress Cell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
ProgressView *progressView = (ProgressView *)[cell viewWithTag:PROGRESS_VIEW_TAG];
// Set up the progress view for this transcript
progressView.transcript = transcript;
}
else {
// Get the associated cell type for messages
cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"Message Cell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
// Get the message view
MessageView *messageView = (MessageView *)[cell viewWithTag:MESSAGE_VIEW_TAG];
// Set up the message view for this transcript
messageView.transcript = transcript;
}
return cell;
}
As mention before I only need the message so I stripped down to this:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
UITableViewCell *cell;
Transcript *transcript = [self.messageArray objectAtIndex :[indexPath row]];
cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"Message Cell" forIndexPath:indexPath];
MessageView *messageView = (MessageView *)[cell viewWithTag:MESSAGE_VIEW_TAG];
messageView.transcript = transcript;
//how does the code add the view and return it ?? :-S
return cell;
}
This code does not display anything.
Now I dont understand how this code customize the cell to show speech bubbles.
Please advice.