How to give more than 2 custom cell on one tableView for chat

Question

chat image for chat ui have 3 type which is text , image , and carousel . am i need to make 3 custom cell for one tableView and how to do that ?

Answer 1

Yes you have to create three custom cell, for crousal either use third party or a collection view inside tableview cell.

for eg:

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
  let cellIncomming = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "IncommingChatCell") as! IncommingChatCell
  let cellOutgoing = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "OutgoingChatCell") as! OutgoingChatCell

  let chatInfo = chatDataSourse[indexPath.row]
  if chatInfo.user == "receiver" {
    cellIncomming.chatLabel.text = chatInfo.chatString
    return cellIncomming
  }else {
    cellOutgoing.chatLabel.text = chatInfo.chatString
    return cellOutgoing
  }
}