Allow username in both bubble and outside

[kentnek]

Hi, currently username is inside the message bubble. How can I move it outside, to the top of the bubble?

Thanks for the great library!

[AmirC123]

+1
It's a good idea because it makes it so you could customize bubble color & text color to fit just each other, rather than having them having to fit all possible group user colors

BUT it should be customizable. User name, message body, and bubble ideally should each be customizable separately for both layout and style.

Since we already have all the message builders and a customBubbleBuilder, this could possibly be achieved by having a user name builder, and an additional field in the customBubbleBuilder

[demchenkoalex]

Why user name builder will be required exactly? bubbleBuilder is what you need with a showUserNames set to false? Impossible to make options for everything, everyone wants something different :( I think those high lever builders should be used to make something you need in your case

[kentnek]

Why user name builder will be required exactly? bubbleBuilder is what you need with a showUserNames set to false? Impossible to make options for everything, everyone wants something different :( I think those high lever builders should be used to make something you need in your case

I thinking exposing showUserName to bubbleBuilder is good enough for my case, since only the topmost bubble in a group of messages needs to show the name. In fact, as we already have nextMessageInGroup, how about having another param isFirstMessageInGroup?

[demchenkoalex]

I don't think it is possible, I can't go back and see if this was a first message, chat is not performant as is like people mention here, imagine more calculations :D

[kentnek]

@demchenkoalex then just exposing showUserName to bubbleBuilder should work I guess.

[demchenkoalex]

this I can do

[plax-ys]

@demchenkoalex
Is it in progress?

[demchenkoalex]

everything here that is not answered is in progress. I will have public board as well a bit later.