What are the long term plans for this project? about messageviewcontroller HOT 6 OPEN

@enhancient both had different beginnings. I started mine for MessageKit and Ryan did his for GitHawk. Ryan has many more followers than me though so this library gained a large following quickly so I wanted to contribute with something I would find useful in GitHawk.

Aside from different origin stories, both have quite different architectures. MessageViewController is a UIViewController subclass where was InputBarAccessoryView is an InputAccessoryView.

Ryan is really nice about PRs and I'm happy to have one on mine to. If you had to make a choice between the two you would have to look at what you project needs and which is better for it.

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Love this project already, love this issue too. I was looking for a lightweight replacement for slacktextviewcontroller. Will be interested to see the vision for the project! <3

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@eliburke If you are looking for something with more buttons/functionality I suggest you take a look at my repo https://github.com/nathantannar4/InputBarAccessoryView It is what we use at MessageKit

I agree with Ryan in that Table/Collection View should be separate as they shouldn't depend on each other

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All great questions! And ones that I haven’t put a lot of thought into. I’ll try to work on a vision doc sometime to express my thoughts.

It’s definitely not a total STVC replacement yet. There are missing features like edit mode and left buttons. But for a simple resizing text view for messaging, this is pretty much all you need.

I don’t plan on adding any messaging functionality to this project as I think that implementing table or collection views should be completely decoupled from an input text view (prob my biggest gripe with STVC).

Really great questions, I’m glad you asked!

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@nathantannar4 InputBarAccessoryView looks great - so why doesn't this project leverage that work considering you are a collaborator on this project? If I use InputBarAccessoryView now for the extra buttons functionality that I need, will I be wanting to migrate across to MessageViewController in a few months when that's added here in this project? I also need an edit mode, so if I develop that, which project is most likely to take a merge request?

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@nathantannar4 thanks, that's useful 👍

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