get View of dialog List item about chatkit

[mradzinski]

DialogsList.setOnDialogLongClickListener should give you a Dialog instance of the dialog the user is pressing. So, having that instance already you should invoke DialogsList.getLayoutManager to get the LinearLayoutManager instance held by the RecyclerView that DialogsList extends from. Once you have the reference to that LayoutManager it's easy, you should invoke LayoutManager.findViewByPosition which will return the view you are looking for.

[mubtadasyed]

How can I get the position of that dialog instance, as dialog adapter does not have that method? kindly help!

[mradzinski]

DialogsListAdapter doesn't seem to provide a getter for the list of items you need, so you either keep track of your actions (by having a secondary list of DIALOG synchronized with the one held inside the DialogsListAdapter) or fork this repo and add a getItems() method on the DialogsListAdapter class. Having that list of DIALOG you'll be able to call List.indexOf to get the position.

Check the code of DialogsListAdapter and read the RecyclerView.adapter and LinearLayoutManager official documentation. All you need is in there, you just need to think how to use it.

[mubtadasyed]

Thanks, it worked!

[mradzinski]

I already created a PR to allow the users to retrieve the current position of a certain dialog. As soon as it gets merged (if it is) you can get back to relay on the official implementation of this library.

[troy379]

Hi @mubtadasyed !
Starting from version 0.2.1 you can use OnMessageViewClickListener and OnMessageViewLongClickListener, which has the same behavior as previous listeners, but also returns view. Hope it helps you.

Best regards, Alexander.

[mradzinski]

Hey @troy379, the main reason for creating the PR was because providing listeners can be very limiting for the developer. For example, how does the developer implement a swipe to delete functionality based on those listeners? IMHO, having the possibility to retrieve the view itself (through RecyclerView and RecyclerView.Adapter methods) is much more flexible than providing a listener itself.

[bevzaanton]

#32 merged. Thanks @mradzinski