Slide left or right to reveal timestamp

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i'm trying to implement slide to show timestamp into messengekit libaray

One thing I am stuck on is how to "Slide" the entire collection view to show the timestamp of each message. That said, I don't expect the algorithm for the timestamps, I already have the timestamps stored for each message. I'm only confused on the concept of sliding the collection view. I can't find anything on it. I've tried plenty of documentation. Thanks!

Currently the library doesn't support this functionality and nor is it an easy feature to accomplish. We don't have something like this planned for the best future — Kashif Ahmed, Mar 04 '19 at 06:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 06 '20 at 07:34

You can use the following to achieve this with MessageKit.

        self.showMessageTimestampOnSwipeLeft = true

    func messageTimestampLabelAttributedText(for message: MessageType, at indexPath: IndexPath) -> NSAttributedString? {
        let messageDate = message.sentDate
        let formatter = DateFormatter()
        formatter.dateFormat = "HH:mm"
        let dateString = formatter.string(from: messageDate)
        return
            NSAttributedString(string: dateString, attributes: [.font: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12)])
    }

Slide left or right to reveal timestamp

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