SocialView

TextView and EditText with hashtag, mention, and hyperlink support.

• Pre-loaded with default views, but also installable to any custom view.
• Display hashtag and mention suggestions as you type.

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repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    google()
}
dependencies {
    // base widgets
    implementation "com.hanggrian.socialview:socialview:$version"

    // auto-complete widgets
    implementation "com.hanggrian.socialview:socialview-autocomplete:$version"
}

Usage

Base library contains SocialTextView, SocialEditText and helper class to apply such behavior in any TextView.

<com.hanggrian.socialview.SocialTextView
  android:id="@+id/textView"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:text="#hashtag and @mention."
  app:socialFlags="hashtag|mention"
  app:hashtagColor="@color/blue"
  app:mentionColor="@color/red"/>

See attrs.xml for full list of available attributes.

Modify its state and set listeners programmatically.

textView.setMentionEnabled(false);
textView.setHashtagColor(Color.RED);
textView.setOnHashtagClickListener((view, s) -> {
    // ...
});

Auto-complete

Extended library comes with SocialAutoCompleteTextView.

<com.hanggrian.socialview.autocomplete.SocialAutoCompleteTextView
  android:id="@+id/textView"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:hint="What's on your mind?"
  app:socialFlags="hyperlink"
  app:hyperlinkColor="@color/red"/>

To display suggestions, it is required to setHashtagAdapter() and setMentionAdapter().

ArrayAdapter<Hashtag> hashtagAdapter = new HashtagAdapter(getContext());
hashtagAdapter.add(new Hashtag("isell"));
hashtagAdapter.add(new Hashtag("isellpropane", 500));
textView.setHashtagAdapter(hashtagAdapter);

ArrayAdapter<Mention> mentionAdapter = new MentionAdapter(getContext());
mentionAdapter.add(new Mention("hank"));
mentionAdapter.add(new Mention("hankhill", "Hank Hill", R.drawable.ic_person));
textView.setMentionAdapter(mentionAdapter);

To customize hashtag or mention adapter, create a custom adapter using customized SocialAdapter or write your own ArrayAdapter.

Custom adapters are experimental, see sample for example.

public class Person {
    public final String name;

    public Person(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
}

// easier
public class PersonAdapter extends SocialAdapter<Person> {
    public PersonAdapter(@NonNull Context context) {
        super(context, R.layout.item_person, R.id.textview_person);
    }

    @Override
    public String convertToString(Person $receiver) {
        return $receiver.name;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, @NonNull ViewGroup parent) {
        // ...
    }
}

// this works too
public class PersonAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Person> {
    // your own adapter layout, view holder, data binding
    // and of course, filtering logic
}

Then, use the custom adapter.

ArrayAdapter<Person> adapter = new PersonAdapter(getContext());
adapter.add(personA);
adapter.add(personB);
textView.setMentionAdapter(adapter);