Messagekit: [Prerelease] v0.7.0

[SD10]

Hey everyone 😅,
I've just finished up MessageKit v0.7.0 and think that this release was a big step in the right direction. Hopefully, with a few more minor versions we will have something of production quality.

Improvements / Changes

• New MessageStyles supporting iMessage & Google Hangouts style bubbles
• Default DateHeaderView is shown on new messages received after a 1hr time interval
• incomingAvatarSize & outgoingAvatarSize deprecated in favor of a more dynamic method
• Support for avatarAlwaysLeading and avatarAlwaysTrailing layouts
• Removes bottomLabelExtendsPastAvatar and topLabelExtendsPastAvatar flags
• Replaced with ability to adjust to cellTopLabel/cellBottomLabel to 5 positions: .cellLeading, .cellTrailing, .cellCenter, .messageLeading, .messageTrailing
• Renames AvatarPosition -> AvatarAlignment
• Renames MessagesDisplayDataSource -> MessagesDisplayDelegate
• Reorganizes MessagesLayoutDelegate, MessagesDataSource and MessagesDisplayDelegate
  to better represent the methods they contain
• The MessageCellDelegate now conforms to MessageLabelDelegate
• MessagesDisplayDelegate (prev MessagesDisplayDataSource) no longer conforms to MessagesDataSource
• Added some availability attributes for anyone who has potentially started using the project
• Fixes the text rendering delay for the MessageInputBar

Thanks to

@oyalhi For working on the message styles
@antonijap For providing the images for the message bubbles
@nathantannar4 For some bugfixes related to the MessageInputBar

Contributing

Looking to get involved in the project? Come join us on at the MessageKit Slack Channel

[hyouuu]

Great work!!

[sergpol]

Thank Your for You great work!!!
I try to use this library, in POD file:
pod 'MessageKit'
On ver 0.5.0 all works fine but labels did not align at right side (always on left side).
Ver 0.7.0 when i run chat controller get an exception:
fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value
on "static func messageKitAssetBundle() -> Bundle" on line "return Bundle(url: resourceUrl)!"

Maybe i'm doing something wrong? Please help me

[SD10]

@sergpol You're not making a mistake, this is an error by me. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
Please use MessageKit, ~>0.6.0 for now. I'll resolve this as soon as I can.

[SD10]

@sergpol This should be taken care of in v0.7.1. Let me know if you have any further issues.

[sergpol]

@SD10 great!!! Works perfect!!!

[marlontojal]

@SD10 , I'm having the same issue on 0.7.2. I think this is happening because I'm using Carthage instead of cocoapods

[marlontojal]

@SD10 It looks like in Carthage the images are on the framework bundle and not on a MessageKitAssets.bundle

[SD10]

@marlontojal Thank you for reporting this. I will take care of it today

[SD10]

@marlontojal I think this is resolved in 0.7.4. If it's not just let me know.

[marlontojal]

@SD10 Sorry for the delay, its fixed, Thanks