Balloon in Chatting Android Application

Question

I've to develop an android application that allows users to chat I want to make textView that handle their conversations in Balloon as shown in the picture below ,,

can anyone inform me how can I do that ????

thanks in advance

Answer 1

create two balloon images (for sent and received messages), make them 9 patch and set them as background to a layout which contains conversation.

Answer 2

You will use 9 Patch images for this.

for showing them, you will use ListView and each row item will contain text and that 9 patch chat bubble background.

Lot of discussion are available:

• I've written a blog post about android chat bubbles, you can find the open-source code there too.
• For example this stackoverflow post.
• Speech bubble popups containing a View post will also help you.