Group messages for same user

[jordanfitnext]

Has anyone found a way to group messages (change background layout) and have only one avatar like the Google's Messages app?

Like that :

[bevzaanton]

Sorry @jordanfitnext I can't understand what you want to do. What "Google's Messages app" do you mean?

[Qheb]

@bevzaanton I think he means that, when several messages are from the same author, it would be nice to be able to display the user avatar only once, and to group the message bubbles together, like the two last messages of his drawing.
About the messaging apps implementing this behavior, I can think about Hangout, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Whatsapp.

It would indeed be great to have this feature in ChatKit :)

[Deeptimay]

Hi, Can i display sender name in group chat instead of only image. How can i change the chat bubble layout.
Thanks in adv.

[sameerjj]

FYI there is a PR for this functionality, although the code uses recursion so not sure if it's any good
#271
also, there is an unused method in the library isPreviousSameAuthor() that could perhaps be of value

[fukemy]

@sameerjj i think that is bad because method "isPreviousSameAuthor" need to access data list, but u need to call this function in holder class, where u can not access to data list, or u need to push instance of data list into this

[Hatzen]

Duplicated issues #231