Messagekit: Different avatar sizes for different indexPaths

[Elshad]

Hi!
How can i set different avatar size for incoming messages for exp. if this messages from admin of group? I mean bigger avatar size for admin than for other users.

I came from version 0.13.2
There was avatarSize(for message: MessageType, at indexPath: IndexPath, in messagesCollectionView: MessagesCollectionView) -> CGSize for avatar size

[SD10]

@Elshad Yeah we changed this in 1.0. Here's how you would do it now:

let adminSize = CGSize(width: 40, height: 40)
if let layout = messagesCollectionView.collectionViewLayout as? MessagesCollectionViewFlowLayout {
  layout.setMessageIncomingAvatarSize(adminSize)
}

[Elshad]

@SD10 But this code will set same size to all incoming avatars, i want set different sizes for incoming avatars.
How can i replace below code?

[Elshad]

Is there easy way to do this like previous version or i must extend MessageSizeCalculator and MessagesCollectionViewFlowLayout?

[SD10]

@Elshad If you want to make this dynamic you probably want to override this function in MessageViewController:

override func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, 
                      layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, 
               sizeForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGSize

This method gives you access to the layout object for each index path

[Elshad]

@SD10 I has followed extend class way.

In viewDidLoad add:

Result:

If we will use media and location, then we also must extend and add same override functions to MediaMessageSizeCalculator and LocationMessageSizeCalculator.

At now i think this solution is more clear solution

[SD10]

Yeah @Elshad I can definitely see how this got more difficult with MessageKit 1.0+

Technically, we're able to support that old protocol based API again -- I don't think we'll go that direction though. Maybe we can add more methods to the layout object to make this easier 🤔

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