Android ChatKit – Android Studio Chat UI Kit

Overview

ChatKit is a library designed to simplify the development of UI for such a trivial task as chat. It has flexible possibilities for styling, customizing and data management.

Features

ChatKit Preview

Features

  • Ready-to-use already styled solution for quick implementation
  • Default and custom media messages
  • Fully customizable layouts – setting styles out of the box (use your own colors, text appearances, drawables, selectors and sizes) or even create your own custom markup or/and holders for unique behaviour
  • List of dialogs, including tete-a-tete and group chats, markers for unread messages and last user message view
  • List of messages (incoming and outcoming) with history pagination and already calculated dates headers
  • Different avatars with no specific realization of image loading – you can use any library you want
  • Selection mode for interacting with messages
  • Links highlighting
  • Easy dates formatting
  • Your own models for dialogs and messages – there is no converting needed
  • Ready to use message input view
  • Custom animations (according to RecyclerView usage)

Demo:

Download the .apk file here.

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