SwiftyChat

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Content

• About
• Features
• Quick Preview
• Installation
• Message Kinds
• Usage
• Style & Customization
• Pre-built Themes

About

Simple Chat Interface to quick start with built-in message cells.
Highly optimized for smooth scrolling and responsive user experience.

Features

• High Performance: Optimized rendering with O(n) complexity, cached formatters, and async image loading

• Attributed string support that came with SwiftUI
• Landscape orientation support (autoscales message cells with the given cellWidth property, if exists)
• User Avatar (with different position options, optional usage)
• Dismiss keyboard (on tapping outside)
• Multiline Input Bar added (investigate BasicInputView)
• Scroll to bottom
• "Picture in Picture" background mode video playing (to enable, visit >> Xcode "Sign in and Capabilities")
• Round specific corner of text messages
• Implement custom message cells. See CustomMessage.md for details
• Pre-built Themes: 8 ready-to-use themes for quick customization
• Cross-platform: Full iOS and macOS support
• Swipe to dismiss keyboard

Quick Preview

Basic Example Preview

Text (Light)	Text (Dark)

Advanced Example Preview

Contact, QuickReply, Text, Carousel	Map, Image	ContextMenu

Installation

SPM: https://github.com/EnesKaraosman/SwiftyChat.git

Message Kinds

public enum ChatMessageKind {
    
    /// A text message,
    /// supports emoji 👍🏻 (auto scales if text is all about emojis)
    case text(String)
    
    /// An image message, from local(UIImage) or remote(URL).
    case image(ImageLoadingKind)
    
    /// A location message, pins given location & presents on MapKit.
    case location(LocationItem)
    
    /// A contact message, generally for sharing purpose.
    case contact(ContactItem)
    
    /// Multiple options, disables itself after selection.
    case quickReply([QuickReplyItem])
    
    /// `CarouselItem`s that contains title, subtitle, image & button in a scrollable view
    case carousel([CarouselItem])
    
    /// A video message, opens the given URL.
    case video(VideoItem)
}

Usage

• ChatView

Here below is minimum code required to get started (see up & running)
For detail, visit example project here

import SwiftyChat
import SwiftyChatMock

@State private var scrollToBottom = false
@State private var messages: [MockMessages.ChatMessageItem] = [] // for quick test assign MockMessages.generatedMessages()

// ChatMessageItem & ChatUserItem is a sample objects/structs 
// that conforms `ChatMessage` & `ChatUser` protocols.
ChatView<MockMessages.ChatMessageItem, MockMessages.ChatUserItem>(
    messages: $messages,
    scrollToBottom: $scrollToBottom
) {
    // InputView here, continue reading..
}
// ▼ Required
.environmentObject(
    // All parameters initialized by default, 
    // change as you want.
    ChatMessageCellStyle()
)
.onReceive(
    messages.debounce(for: .milliseconds(650), scheduler: RunLoop.main),
    perform: { _ in
        scrollToBottom = true
    }
)
// ...

• InputView

You can investigate existing BasicInputView in project.
You can use it if it suits your need, or create a new one.
Recommended way is just clone this BasicInputView and modify (ex. add camera icon etc.)

// InputBarView variables
@State private var message = ""

var inputBarView: some View {
    BasicInputView(
        message: $message, // Typed text.
        placeholder: "Type something",
        onCommit: { messageKind in
            self.messages.append(
                .init(user: MockMessages.sender, messageKind: messageKind, isSender: true)
            )
        }
    )
    .background(Color.primary.colorInvert())
    // ▼ An extension that wraps view inside AnyView
    .embedInAnyView()
}

// Pass in ChatView
ChatView(messages: $messages) {
    inputBarView 
}
...
...

Style and Customization

public class ChatMessageCellStyle: ObservableObject {
    
    let incomingTextStyle: TextCellStyle
    let outgoingTextStyle: TextCellStyle
    
    let incomingCellEdgeInsets: EdgeInsets
    let outgoingCellEdgeInsets: EdgeInsets
    
    let contactCellStyle: ContactCellStyle
    
    let imageCellStyle: ImageCellStyle
    
    let quickReplyCellStyle: QuickReplyCellStyle
    
    let carouselCellStyle: CarouselCellStyle
    
    let locationCellStyle: LocationCellStyle
    
    let incomingAvatarStyle: AvatarStyle
    let outgoingAvatarStyle: AvatarStyle
    
}

You must initiate this class to build a proper style & inject it as environmentObject,
All styles has default initializer;

For detail documentation, visit Styles.md

You can also use your own custom message cell, see CustomMessage.md for details.

Please feel free to contribute.

• Create PR for a feature/bug you'd like to add/fix.

Pre-built Themes

SwiftyChat comes with 8 pre-built themes for quick customization:

Theme	Description
Modern	Clean blue accent with minimal design
Classic	Traditional green messaging style
Dark Neon	Cyberpunk-inspired with neon pink accents
Minimal	Subtle gray tones for a clean look
Ocean	Calming teal and sea-inspired colors
Sunset	Warm orange gradients
Nature	Fresh green, eco-friendly appearance
Lavender	Soft purple, relaxing aesthetic

Check the Example app's ThemeShowcaseView for live theme switching demos.

Inspiration

• UIKit library MessageKit.
• SwiftUI library Nio.