Chatto 
Chatto is a Swift lightweight framework to build chat applications. It's been designed to be extensible and performant. Along with Chatto there is ChattoAdditions, a companion framework which includes cells for messages and an extensible input component. You can find more details about how it was implemented in our blog. See them in action!
Features
- Calculation of collection view changes and layout in background
- Supports pagination in both directions and autoloading
- Message count contention for fast pagination and rotation with thousands of messsages
- Accessory view revealing by swiping from right
- Interactive keyboard dismissal
- Text bubbles
- Photo bubbles
- Extensible input bar
How to use
Check the wiki!
How to install
CocoaPods
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Make sure
use_frameworks!is added to yourPodfile. -
Include the following in your
Podfile:
# Swift 5
pod 'Chatto', '= 3.5.0'
pod 'ChattoAdditions', '= 3.5.0' # if you want to use the cells or the input component
# Swift 4.2
pod 'Chatto', '= 3.4.0'
pod 'ChattoAdditions', '= 3.4.0' # if you want to use the cells or the input component
# Swift 4
pod 'Chatto', '= 3.3.1'
pod 'ChattoAdditions', '= 3.3.1' # if you want to use the cells or the input component
# Swift 3
pod 'Chatto', '= 3.2.0'
pod 'ChattoAdditions', '= 3.2.0' # if you want to use the cells or the input component
# Swift 2.x
pod 'Chatto', '= 2.1.0'
pod 'ChattoAdditions', '= 2.1.0' # if you want to use the cells or the input component
If you like living on the bleeding edge, you can use the master branch with:
pod 'Chatto', :git => 'https://github.com/badoo/Chatto', :branch => 'master'
pod 'ChattoAdditions', :git => 'https://github.com/badoo/Chatto', :branch => 'master'
- Run
pod install
Carthage
If you’re using Carthage, simply add Chatto to your Cartfile:
# Swift 5
github "badoo/Chatto"
# Swift 2.x
github "badoo/Chatto" "swift-2"
Manually
- Clone, add as a submodule or download.
- Drag and drop
Chattoand/orChattoAdditionsproject to your workspace - Add
Chattoand/orChattoAdditionsto Embedded binaries
License
Source code is distributed under MIT license.
Android
Check our colleagues' project Chateau!
Blog
Read more on our tech blog or explore our other open source projects