A UI framework for building messenger interfaces on iOS

by iOS Example

MessengerKit

MessengerKit is a drop-in UI for messenger interfaces on iOS built in Swift. Centred around a single UIViewController, MessengerKit is themeable to fit your needs and includes a number of powerful features:

  • UICollectionView based with pre-loading and caching of size calculation for bubbles.
  • Auto-growing input view.
  • Multiple included cell types: text, large-emoji, image, video.
  • Presentation of SFSafariViewController
  • Built-in, customisable themes.
  • A custom theming system to bring your own UICollectionViewCells, headers, footers, and input views.
  • Avatar support (currently only in the travamigos theme).

The framework was built for and is used in production at Travamigos.

Installation

MessengerKit requires Swift 4.0 and iOS 10.0 or later.

Manual

Drag the contents of the MessengerKit folder into your Xcode Project.

CocoaPods

Add the following to your project's Podfile.

pod 'MessengerKit', :git => 'https://github.com/steve228uk/MessengerKit.git'

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