Food for thought: Do messaging apps use different ...

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[dragas]

Food for thought: Do messaging apps use different layouts to represent user's and another user's messages? They only seem to be different in alignment and background color.

[vlastachu]

dragas: I used same layout, and some time later I begin feeling pain for this decision (outgoing message have more info and behavior logic).
Nowadays I would start with AnkoComponent MessageContatinerUI, which would be parent class for incoming and outgoing messages. and different componennts for different message content types (text, image, audio)