What is best way to show text from chat?

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#1

Hello,

I am writing my own chat routine in my app and have all of the back end part done on the server. I am using JSON to retrieve any new messages to be added to the chat in the app. What is the best way to show the text? Do I put a listView and add text at the bottom and have it scroll to the bottom each time?

Thanks,

Warren

#2

I’m using tableview for chat and scrolling to bottom, works ok.

#3

How are you setting the row height for each chat? I assume you can get the text content height and use that.

#4

Ahh forgot about that, that was indeed a hassle. I’m rendering the text object with same size etc, checking the height, then removing the object and then adding to the tableview :frowning:

#5

I’m using tableview for chat and scrolling to bottom, works ok.

#6

How are you setting the row height for each chat? I assume you can get the text content height and use that.

#7

Ahh forgot about that, that was indeed a hassle. I’m rendering the text object with same size etc, checking the height, then removing the object and then adding to the tableview :frowning: