@Thomas

So based from what i understand is this what you want to achieve:

What i means is similar to whats app or popular messaging? As far as i know the method that i will use in this scenario is using One Table but have different field type and then uses Custom BindingProperties that implemented like in the MyInventory samples (Message In using Left UI label, message out using Right UI Label).

If this what you want to achieve i will try to create similar things if it helps

Best Regards,

Arief

Hello Arief,

the layout you showed above is what I want to achieve, but I think not the way you propose to create it.

What I want to do is having two different cell views defined in code only. And depending on the type of message (incoming or outgoing) using the right cell view to display the row within the table. Using one cell view and having a label aligned to the left and another one aligned to the right and filling only one of them is not what I want to realize.

Thanks,

Thomas

Hi Thomas

For this moment, showing alternate cell view is not yet supported (our get cell view only called once at the start), however that feature already inside our roadmap (planned after v4 (in a few days v4 will be released)). Also for your information we planned to support the chat view by implementing alternate item layout id and also template selector for complex need.

Also you are right about my method, it's rather not elegant... and also we can't easily adjust the images/readed label position too.

Best Regards,
Arief

Hello Arief,

are there any updates about the alternating table rows?

Thanks,

Thomas

Hi Thomas,

I will ask our engineer how it goes for alternate cell view.

Hi Thomas

Here is what our engineer said, It will be planned for our next roadmap, but you can implement yourself by basically using custom cell template, and configure the style in AwakeFromNib based on the index. But if you are prefers to wait, then it'll be in our next roadmap. Possibly on September one.

I will try to make a simple sample for you using our engineer method, but you can also try it yourself.

Best Regards,
Arief

Hello Arief,

Thank you for the information. A sample would be nice.

Best Regards,

Thomas

Hello Arief,

any news about the sample you would provide?

Thanks,

Thomas

Hi Thomas,

Sorry im very late to inform you, yes we did test it and actually i'm explain him wrong, looks like if this is the case i can't make a workaround but i already inform to our developer under code CROS-887

Hope that'll helps

Hello Arief,

when will CROS-887 be fixed.

At the moment I have the impression, that the Crosslight support is very slow. It takes quite same time the get an answer to a problem and a fix takes even more time or even worse, the fix never happens. Last year everything went fast. Why did this change?

Thanks,

Thomas

Hi Thomas,

We are really sorry for your inconvenience, and thank for your feedback, i will inform it to our management.

Alternate table rows was planned for next version of crosslight, but i will try to tell our developer to make a nightly build if it is possible. 

Hello Arief,

a nightly build would be great. Including this feature into Crosslight 4 Update1 would be fine.

I hope you guys can manage one or the other solution.

Thanks,
Thomas

Hi Thomas,

Just an update from our developer, most likely this will be released in september as Update 

Best Regards, 
Arief

Hello Arief,

can you confirm that this feature is in the active sprint of Crosslight 4 Update 1 which is estimated for end of September 2015?

Thanks,

Thomas

Hi Thomas,

Yes CROS-887 was on this month sprint (July-September 2015), including with CROS-893, i will poke our programmer again about those issues!

Hope this will helps!

Best Regards,
Arief

Hi Thomas

just a head up the Crosslight update 1 is already here and already include celltemplateselector!

Feel free to check it out! :)

Best Regards,
Arief

Hello Arief,

Thank you for the update.

It looks good on iOS. I will test it on Android soon.

One question: Is it possible to define the cell template only by code? At the moment, the cell is defined as a layout (nib/axml). Is it also possible to have cells with dynamic/flexible height?

Thanks,

Thomas

Hi Thomas,

For first questions, looks like it can be done in template selector if what you meant using non-custom cells?

For seconds questions, as far as i know android is already dynamic, for iOS we already have the code, you can check it in our Message Input Sample.