A UI Library for adding "Messages" like Chat to any iOS Application. A community-driven replacement for JSQMessagesViewController.
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Calculate size of custom collectionView cell at run time with typing text
I have made custom cell and reusable with typingIndicator data source method of MessageKit. I want to calculate size of the custom cell and update the height with the actual text of typed by another user. Can you help me with the below UI?

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MessagesDisplayDelegate not being called after typing in message
Working with MessageKit and I swear this used to work - typing in a new message doesn't trigger the MessagesDisplayDelegate and thus old messages don't get new formatting like hiding the AvatarView or adjusting the MessageStyle
If I call…

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How can we detect if user press the "Send/Return" button on keyboard with MessageKit?
I would like the user to be able to send messages when he/she presses the "Send" button on the keyboard also. For a textField I know that can be achieved with the delagte. But could anyone please point me how can we do this in MessageKit? I was not…

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Getting an error when sending the imageURl to another ViewController
Have an issue when sending the imageURL to anotherViewController the error is like ( Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while implicitly unwrapping an Optional value).I'm using messageKit and SdWEbImage pod.When user click on image it goes to…

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How do i get conversation to display at the bottom by default where recent messages are present when entering chat screen?
After tapping on a conversation, the chat screen will start at the top and then scroll all the way to the bottom. How can i bypass starting at the top and the scrolling to immediately displaying the most recent message at the bottom.
This line of…
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MessageKit - Keyboard does not display when i tap on inputBar
Many of the suggestions i've read said to include self.messageInputBar.inputTextView.becomeFirstResponder() in viewDidAppear() which doesn't seem to work for me. I'm able to type 'ABC' from the computer keyboard, but I want to be able to type from…
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Delegate and DataSource not woking in MessageKit Swift IOS
I'm using the MessageKit for chating when I calling the its delegate and datasource it saying (Cannot find 'messagesCollectionView' in scope) please see the code and guide me thanks.
import UIKit
import FirebaseAuth
import MessageKit
struct…

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How to clear text in MessageKit inputBar after Pressing Send in inputBarAccessoryView
I'm building a real time chat application. Where I use message kit and inputBarAccessoryView library to make a conversation between 2 users.
I've used -
extension ChatViewController: InputBarAccessoryViewDelegate {
func inputBar(_ inputBar:…

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Can I create custom cells like these in swift 5 ios using messageKIt?
I am building a chat app and I am new to ios, I want to build custom cells like these using messageKIT, can anybody help me with any resource or code?

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configureAvatarView not working properly in MessageKit
I'm using MessageKit to create a chat interface for my app.
I'm currently using this code from their examples to not show a user's avatar if the multiple messages are from the same author:
func configureAvatarView(_ avatarView: AvatarView, for…

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Chat View built with MessageKit never scrolls to last message with a picture
I'm building a chat view for my app with MessageKit. Image messages are something that this chat view will support. I'm currently having an issue where if the last message is a picture message, the message won't be properly displayed:
I'm loading…

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Where is the condition of align messages to the left and to the right in Official Example?
I have downloaded and learned the official MessageKit example.
My own messages are displayed on the right, and opponent messages are displayed on the left. However, I can not find a condition in the code that determines where the message will be…

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MessageKit: the added input bar button only appears after I sent a message
I'm building an app using MessageKit.
I added an InputBarItem to the input bar, but it doesn't appear when the view first appears. Only after I pressed "send", the item shows up.
Below is part of the ChatViewController. Any idea why this…

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How to retrieve message as a String from MessageKit
I am using MessageKit to make a basic chatting app. However, I wanted to do something with the text of the latest sent message.
This is an example of what I want:
print("This is what I was talking about:\n\n", newMessage.kind)
I get:
text("Hi…

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Showing images from remote server inside message bubble MessageKit swift
I'm trying to show image inside message bubble of Message Kit. As I got to know Message Kit has a lot of types of its bubbles. For my approach .photo(ImageMediaItem) , I think, is the best message kind. I would like to see loaded imaged inside…

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