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I am using JSQMessageViewControllers library to implement the chat view. However, I want to hide the avatar image in the chat.

According to the following documentation. http://cocoadocs.org/docsets/JSQMessagesViewController/7.2.0/Protocols/JSQMessagesCollectionViewDataSource.html#//api/name/collectionView:avatarImageDataForItemAtIndexPath:

I will just need to return nil in the following function. 

override func collectionView(collectionView: JSQMessagesCollectionView!, avatarImageDataForItemAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath!) -> JSQMessageAvatarImageDataSource! {
    return nil
}

However, after returning nil. It has white spaces for each message for the original avatar location. chat image

How can we remove the white spaces?

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I solved the problem by setting the following properties in my JSQMessageViewController subclass to remove the white spaces.

collectionView?.collectionViewLayout.incomingAvatarViewSize = CGSizeZero
collectionView?.collectionViewLayout.outgoingAvatarViewSize = CGSizeZero
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In the view did load setting

collectionView?.collectionViewLayout.incomingAvatarViewSize = .zero collectionView?.collectionViewLayout.outgoingAvatarViewSize = .zero .zero comes form CoreGraphics CGSize

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