Question

Question, what kind of thing would i use for this?

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Basically where when i type in my reply in the right, and the apps reply is on the left

Answer 1

There are a ton of ways to do this.

The easiest is to use a table layout, and have each row contain a Drawable for the avatar and a nine-patch for the chat bubble.

Whenever someone adds to the conversation, add a row to the table. Depending on which person said it, draw starting from either the left or the right.

Also, ya might want to wrap the table in a ScrollView.

By the way, this is a working solution, not the best one. You could use a ListView, but that’s slightly more complicated.

More information about 9-patch images can be found here:

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/draw9patch.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/2d-graphics.html#nine-patch
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/NinePatch.html