Create a new Node Component

Before to continue, you must be familiar with RecyclerView and Recyclerview.ViewHolder patterns and implementations.

You can create components from any of the following models:

Creating a message-like component

You will create a class with metadata and populate onto a layout.

• Inherit and implement from ChatNode.
• Inherit and implement from ChatNodeText if it also handles text. (optional, it could be an image)
• Create an inner Builder static class with fluent interface.
• Implement equals() and hashCode() methods.
• Follow the contract's interfaces.

About the ViewType - It must be a unique ID resource, which will be handled by RecyclerView.Adapter#getViewType()

<item type="id" name="my_own_component_unique_view_type" />

About the ViewHolderBuilder - It must be an implementation of ChatViewHolderBuilder, that will be consumed by RecyclerView.Adapter#onBindViewHolder

return MyOwnComponentUniqueViewHolderBuilder.build();

Please have a look at ChatMessageText and ChatMessageTextViewHolderBuilder to learn more.

Creating a action-like component

You will create a class with metadata and apply onto a View.

• Inherit and implement from ChatAction.
• Create an inner Builder static class with fluent interface.
• Implement compareTo(), equals() and hashCode() methods.
• Follow the contract's interfaces.

About the ViewBuilder - Essentially you have to return a View, which is one of the items of a list of Action.

About the ActionFeedback - You will build and return a ActionFeedback object based on the Action metadata selected by the user.

Please have a look at ChatActionText and ChatActionTextViewBuilder to learn more.

Creating a feedback-like component

You will build a class with the Action metadata and populate onto a layout.

It is very similar on how you create a message-like component.

Please have a look at ChatActionFeedbackText and ChatActionFeedbackTextViewHolderBuilder to learn more.

If you have any question, please open an issue.