I am implementing chat application and I want to change width of table view cell in chat application so that sender can see his messages left aligned and receiver can see his messages right aligned.
code as below:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
chatCell *cell = (chatCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CHAT_CELL_IDENTIFIER];
NSUInteger row = indexPath.row;
if (row < chatData.count)
{
self.bubbleImage = [[UIImageView alloc] init];
self.bubbleImage.frame = CGRectMake(0,22,250,66);
self.bubbleImage.image = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"bubbleMine.png"] stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:21 topCapHeight:14];
NSString *chatText = [[chatData objectAtIndex:row] objectForKey:TEXT];
cell.textLabel.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByWordWrapping;
UIFont *font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:14];
CGSize size = [chatText sizeWithFont:font constrainedToSize:CGSizeMake(150.0f, 1000.0f) lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByCharWrapping];
cell.textString.frame = CGRectMake(75, 18, size.width +20, size.height + 20); // set text frame
cell.textString.font = [UIFont fontWithName:FONT_NAME size:FONT_SIZE]; // set text font
cell.textString.text = chatText; // set text
[cell.textString sizeToFit];
NSDate *theDate = [[chatData objectAtIndex:row] objectForKey:DATE];
NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[formatter setDateFormat:DATE_FORMAT];
NSString *timeString = [formatter stringFromDate:theDate];
cell.timeLabel.text = timeString; // set timeLabel to display date and time
cell.userLabel.text = [[chatData objectAtIndex:row] objectForKey:NAME]; // set userLabel to display userName
[self.bubbleImage addSubview:cell.userLabel];
[self.bubbleImage addSubview:cell.timeLabel];
[self.bubbleImage addSubview:cell.textString];
[cell addSubview:self.bubbleImage];
}
return cell;
}
- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
NSString *cellText = [[chatData objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] objectForKey:TEXT];
UIFont *cellFont = [UIFont fontWithName:FONT_NAME size:FONT_SIZE];
CGSize constraintSize = CGSizeMake(225.0f, MAXFLOAT);
CGSize labelSize = [cellText sizeWithFont:cellFont constrainedToSize:constraintSize lineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByWordWrapping];
return labelSize.height + 40;
}