CometChatDate is a widget which is used to show the date and time. You can also customize the appearance of this widget by modifying its logic.

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How to integrate CometChatDate ?

Since CometChatDate is a widget, it can be added directly in the build method. CometChatDate includes various parameters to customize its UI.

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Usage

<com.cometchat.chatuikit.shared.views.CometChatDate.CometChatDate
            android:id="@+id/txt_message_date"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           />

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Methods

MethodsTypeDescription
setDatelong,StringThis method accept two parameters, time stamp in sec and date format in which you want to display time
setPatternPatternUsed to set pattern with different logics TIME,DAY_DATE,DAY_DATE_TIME
setCustomDateStringStringtext to show instead of date from DateTime object
setStyleDateStyleused to customize the appearance of this widget

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DateStyle

MethodsTypeDescription
setTextAppearanceTextStyleUsed to set text style of date component
setBackgroundColorUsed to set the background color
setBorderWidthBoxBorderused to set border
setCornerRadiusdoubleused to set the corner radius
setBackgroundDrawableused to set a Drawable background

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Usage

CometChatDate date=view.findViewById(R.id.date);
date.setStyle(new DateStyle().setTextAppearance(R.style.TextAppearance_AppCompat));