ChatLayout
ChatLayout is an alternative solution to MessageKit. It uses custom UICollectionViewLayout to provide you full control over the presentation as well as all the tools available in UICollectionView. It supports dynamic cells and supplementary view sizes. (by ekazaev)
MessageKit
A community-driven replacement for JSQMessagesViewController (by MessageKit)
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| ChatLayout | MessageKit | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | |
| 803 | 5,896 | |
| - | 0.5% | |
| 7.5 | 7.4 | |
| 5 days ago | 2 months ago | |
| Swift | Swift | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ChatLayout
Posts with mentions or reviews of ChatLayout.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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How to create reverse tableview?
I have not used this library, so don’t know if it is any good, but as an example you can look through the code: https://github.com/ekazaev/ChatLayout
MessageKit
Posts with mentions or reviews of MessageKit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-04.
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What lib should I choose for Chat?
Hi there. I'm going to do the Chat app for my company. My best choice so far is MessageKit: https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit Any other options from you guys? Thanks
- Open Source recommendations for chat UI
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I am trying to implement a messaging system on my app with bubbles. How do you implement the UI?
Here you go : https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit
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MessageKit - Return Multiple Custom Cells
I referred to these answered questions https://github.com/MessageKit/MessageKit/issues/1454
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ChatLayout and MessageKit you can also consider the following projects:
SwiftyChat - SwiftUI Chat UI (Client) Framework & Documentation to get started!
Chatto - A lightweight framework to build chat applications, made in Swift
SwiftKafka - Swift SDK for Apache Kafka
Messenger Chat with Firebase - Messenger Clone - Real-time iOS Chat with Firebase Firestore written in Swift
mChat - iOS - Real-time messaging app 🎨
JSQMessagesViewController
SwiftyMessenger - Swift toolkit for passing messages between iOS apps and extensions.
XMPPFramework - An XMPP Framework in Objective-C for Mac and iOS
MessengerKit - :speech_balloon: A UI framework for building messenger interfaces on iOS
ChatLayout vs SwiftyChat
MessageKit vs Chatto
ChatLayout vs SwiftKafka
MessageKit vs Messenger Chat with Firebase
ChatLayout vs mChat
MessageKit vs JSQMessagesViewController
ChatLayout vs SwiftyMessenger
MessageKit vs XMPPFramework
ChatLayout vs XMPPFramework
MessageKit vs MessengerKit
ChatLayout vs JSQMessagesViewController
MessageKit vs mChat