Using custom avatar view in chat

[SeanOThomas]

We're using the UI kit to display a list of messages for a chat screen (so MessageListViewModel and the corresponding view). Is there a way of composing our own avatar view? When a member doesn't have an image link, we have a standard way of displaying an empty avatar icon. Thanks!

[zsmb13]

You can subclass the AvatarBitmapFactory class to customize how avatar images are loaded. You have to set the new instance via ChatUI.avatarBitmapFactory.

We have some yet-to-be-published docs about this feature here, and the in-code documentation for AvatarBitmapFactory should also tell you how to override its methods.