Hello!
as a newbie in developing iPhone apps using Objective-C, I was wondering what was the easiest way to recreate the user interface of the iPhone SMS app (one that has message bubbles, etc.)
I was thinking about using a UITableView with a custom UITableViewCell that uses images to recreate message bubbles. this works great when the message flow contains only a small number of messages, but as soon as it exceeds a certain amount, there is a significant amount of time from when the view is translated into the UINavigationController until it actually appears on the screen. I believe this is caused by calculating the height of each table cell (as well as message bubbles).
I know that many other chat clients have implemented such user interfaces, but I cannot find a suitable tutorial on how to do this.
links to textbooks or frameworks would be greatly appreciated. thank.
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