NoChat

NoChat is a lightweight chat UI framework which has no particular faces. The projects in Examples directory show you how to use this framework to implement a text game with user interface like Telegram or WeChat very easily. You can custom your own with NoChat :].

Features

• Inverted mode
• Adaptive user interface
• Custom chat items and input panel
• Simple MVC pattern
• Supports both Objective-C and Swift

Requirements

• iOS 8.0+
• Xcode 8.2.1 or above

Install

NoChat supports multiple methods for install.

Manually

Download and drop /NoChat/NoChat folder in your project.

Architecture

Model

• <NOCChatItem>

Views

• NOCChatContainerView
• NOCChatInputPanel
• NOCChatCollectionView
• NOCChatCollectionViewLayout
• NOCChatItemCell
• <NOCChatItemCellLayout>

ViewController

• NOCChatViewController

Usage

Objective-C

Import the framework.

#import <NoChat/NoChat.h>

You can create a subclass of NOCChatViewController, and provide the data.

@interface TGChatViewController : NOCChatViewController
    // ...
@end

@implementation TGChatViewController

    // Overrides these three methods below to provide basic classes.
    + (Class)cellLayoutClassForItemType:(NSString *)type
    {
        // ...
    }

    + (Class)inputPanelClass
    {
        // ...
    }

    - (void)registerChatItemCells
    {
        // ...
    }

}

Implement your business in this subclass. You may update layouts property through these there methods provide by super class:

• insertLayouts:atIndexes:animated:
• deleteLayoutsAtIndexes:animated:
• updateLayoutAtIndex:toLayout:animated:

And I also suggest you custom the view controller of chat with the protocols provide by NoChat. I mean you can write your own ChatViewController without NOCChatViewController. Source code is mind, not just code, I think.

Swift

Import the framework.

import NoChat

You can create a subclass of NOCChatViewController, and provide the data.

class TGChatViewController: NOCChatViewController {

    // Overrides these three methods below to provide basic classes.
    override class func cellLayoutClass(forItemType type: String) -> Swift.AnyClass? {
        // ...
    }

    override class func inputPanelClass() -> Swift.AnyClass? {
        // ...
    }

    override func registerChatItemCells() {
        // ...
    }

}

Implement your business in this subclass. The same way as description in Objective-C section above.

More

See the Examples projects inside.

About

• This framework is inspired by Chatto and Telegram. Thanks.
• All reources in example projects are extracted from real app Telegram and WeChat. Do not use these resources in your project for business directly.
  
• The example use YYLabel instead of UILabel and HPGrowingTextView for writing text input panel. Thanks to these great contributers. And these dependencies are not essential for NoChat framework. NoChat is just a view layer framework which mainly provide a container just like UITableViewController.
• Text game is migration from Here.
• If you prefer the pure swift version before 0.3, here is a great fork by @mbalex99 with swift 3 support: https://github.com/mbalex99/NoChat, thanks for their great work.

License

Source code is distributed under MIT license.