I have a sms app which does the basic functions.I want to add some smileys so that user can send sms with smileys same as Handcent app.
How can i do this?
Thanks in Advance
Regards-Sunny
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I have a sms app which does the basic functions.I want to add some smileys so that user can send sms with smileys same as Handcent app.
How can i do this?
Thanks in Advance
Regards-Sunny
You can achieve this using ImageSpan objects. The TextViews and EditTexts use Spanned/Spannable objects to store the entered text content, not just mere java Strings. On these Spanned/Spannable objects you can define spans for sections on the text that modifies the way that those sections are shown. So you can display a text in bold, italics, etc. and you can also display images in place of certain sections.
This way you can search for a “:-)” pattern in the entered text, and slap an ImageSpan on it displaying a smiley. Check the docs.