rn-emoji-keyboard/README.md

🚀 rn-emoji-keyboard

A lightweight, fully customizable emoji picker, written as React Native component (without native elements). Designated to be user and developer friendly! 💖

🪄 Installation

yarn add rn-emoji-keyboard

or

npm install rn-emoji-keyboard

⚡️ Usage

import EmojiPicker from 'rn-emoji-keyboard';

export default function App() {
  const [isOpen, setIsOpen] = React.useState<boolean>(false);

  const handlePick = (emojiObject: EmojiType) => {
    console.log(emojiObject);
    /* example emojiObject = { 
        "emoji": "❤️",
        "name": "red heart",
        "slug": "red_heart",
        "unicode_version": "0.6",
      }
    */
  };

  return (
    <EmojiPicker
      onEmojiSelected={handleSelect}
      open={isOpen}
      onClose={() => setIsOpen(false)} />
  )
}

⚙️ Accepted props (current implemented)

Name	Type	Default Value	Required	Description
onEmojiSelected	function	undefined	yes	Callback on emoji selected
open	boolean	false	yes	Opens modal picker
onClose	function	undefined	yes	Request close modal runs when onEmojiSelected or backdrop pressed
emojiSize	number	28	no	Custom emoji size
headerStyles	TextStyle	{}	no	Override category name styles
knobStyles	ViewStyle	{}	no	Override knob styles
containerStyles	ViewStyle	{}	no	Override container styles
hideHeader	boolean	false	no	Hide category names
expandable	boolean	true	no	Show knob and enable expand on swipe up
defaultHeight	number | string	"40%"	no	Specify collapsed container height (number is points, string is a percentage of the screen height)
expandedHeight	number | string	"80%"	no	Specify expanded container height (number is points, string is a percentage of the screen height) works only if expandable is true
backdropColor	string	"#00000055"	no	Change backdrop color and alpha
categoryColor	string	"#000000"	no	Change category item color
activeCategoryColor	string	"#005b96"	no	Change active category item color
categoryContainerColor	string	"#e3dbcd"	no	Change category container color
activeCategoryContainerColor	string	"#ffffff"	no	Change selected category container color
onCategoryChangeFailed	function	warn(info)	no	Callback on category change failed (info: {index, highestMeasuredFrameIndex, averageItemLength})
translation	CategoryTranslation	en	no	Translation object see translation section
disabledCategory	CategoryTypes[]	[]	no	Hide categories by passing their slugs

🇺🇸 Internationalization

Pre-defined

Due to the limited translation possibilities, we only provide a few pre-defined translations into the following languages:

• en - English 🇺🇸
• pl - Polish 🇵🇱

First import lang and use it as translation prop.

import { pl } from 'rn-emoji-keyboard';

// ...

translation={pl}

🏁 Own

There is possibility to pass own translation to library with the prop called translation like this

translation={{
  smileys_emotion: 'Smileys & Emotion',
  people_body: 'People & Body',
  animals_nature: 'Animals & Nature',
  food_drink: 'Food & Drink',
  travel_places: 'Travel & Places',
  activities: 'Activities',
  objects: 'Objects',
  symbols: 'Symbols',
  flags: 'Flags',
}}

If you have written a translation into your language, we strongly encourage you to create a Pull Request and add your language to the package, following the example of other langs.

🎉 Examples

You can clone the repo and run yarn example ios or yarn example android to preview app with this examples.

Basic

Dark

Translated

DisabledCategories

Static (without knob)

📈 Future plans

• Skin tone palette selector.
• Search bar.
• Hide forbidden emojis.

⚖️ License

MIT