React Native Emoji Chooser

A customizable and lightweight Emoji Picker component for React Native applications, built to provide a seamless emoji selection experience with support for multiple languages, themes, and layouts.

Features

• Render: Render within bottom sheet or as a standalone view
• Customizable Themes: Supports light and dark modes with deep partial theme customization.
• Multi-language Support: Configurable translations for category names and text input placeholders.
• Flexible Layout: Adjustable column count for emoji grid display.
• Recent Emojis: Automatically tracks and displays recently used emojis.
• 400+ Emojies: Emojies sourced from emoji-datasource
• Compatible with gifted chat

Installation

npm install react-native-emoji-chooser

Usage

Below is an example of how to integrate the Emoji Picker into your React Native application using a bottom sheet modal.

import { Button, StyleSheet, Text, View } from 'react-native';
import EmojiPicker from 'react-native-emoji-chooser';
import { GestureHandlerRootView } from 'react-native-gesture-handler';
import { BottomSheetModal, BottomSheetModalProvider, BottomSheetView } from '@gorhom/bottom-sheet';
import { useCallback, useRef, useState } from 'react';
import { StatusBar } from 'expo-status-bar';

export default function App() {
  const bottomSheetModalRef = useRef<BottomSheetModal>(null);

  const [language, setLanguage] = useState('en');
  const [theme, setTheme] = useState<'light' | 'dark'>('light');

  const handlePresentModalPress = useCallback(() => {
    bottomSheetModalRef.current?.present();
  }, []);

  const onSelect = (emoji: string) => {
    console.log('Selected emoji:', emoji);
  };

  return (
    <GestureHandlerRootView>
      <StatusBar style={theme === 'light' ? 'light' : 'dark'} />
      <BottomSheetModalProvider>
         <View style={[styles.container, { backgroundColor: theme === 'light' ? '#fff' : '#000' }]}>
          <Button
            title="Open Emoji Picker"
            onPress={handlePresentModalPress}
          />
           <Button
            title="Change Language"
            onPress={() => setLanguage(language === 'en' ? 'uk' : 'en')}
          />
          <Button
            title="Change Theme"
            onPress={() => setTheme(theme === 'light' ? 'dark' : 'light')}
          />
        </View>
        <BottomSheetModal
          ref={bottomSheetModalRef}
          handleIndicatorStyle={{ backgroundColor: theme === 'light' ? '#000' : '#fff' }}
          backgroundStyle={{ backgroundColor: theme === 'light' ? '#fff' : '#111827' }}
          enableDynamicSizing
          enablePanDownToClose={true}
        >
          {/* Fixed haight is required so its work with bottom sheet */}
          <BottomSheetView style={{ height: 700 }}>
            <EmojiPicker
              onSelect={onSelect}
              mode={theme}
              lang={language}
              columnCount={6}
              theme={{
                light: {
                  toolbar: {
                    container: {
                      paddingBottom: 24,
                    }
                  }
                },
                dark: {
                  toolbar: {
                    container: {
                      paddingBottom: 24,
                    }
                  }
                }
              }}  
            />
          </BottomSheetView>
        </BottomSheetModal>
      </BottomSheetModalProvider>
    </GestureHandlerRootView>
  );
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    backgroundColor: '#fff',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center',
  },
});

Props

EmojiPickerProps

Prop	Type	Description	Default
mode	'light' | 'dark'	Theme mode for the emoji picker.	'light'
theme	DeepPartial<ModedTheme>	Custom theme configuration for light or dark mode.	{}
columnCount	number	Number of columns in the emoji grid.	6
translation	DeepPartial<Translation>	Custom translations for categories and text input placeholder.	{}
lang	string	Language code for translations (e.g., 'en', 'uk').	'en'
onSelect	(emoji: string) => void	Callback function triggered when an emoji is selected.	Required
toolbarProps	Pick<ToolbarProps, 'iconWidth'>	Props for customizing the toolbar.	{}
searchBarProps	Partial<TextInputProps>	Props for customizing the searchbar.	{}

Types

Translation

Structure for language-specific translations:

export interface TranslationLangObject {
  categories: Record<Category, string>;
  textInput: {
    placeholder: string;
  };
}

export type Translation = Record<string, TranslationLangObject>;

Theme

Structure for theme configuration:

export interface Theme {
  toolbar: {
    icon: {
      defaultColor: string;
      activeColor: string;
    };
    container: StyleProp<ViewStyle>;
  };
  searchbar: {
    container?: StyleProp<ViewStyle>;
    textInput: StyleProp<TextStyle>;
    placeholderColor: string;
  };
  flatList: {
    container?: StyleProp<ViewStyle>;
    section: {
      header: StyleProp<TextStyle>;
    }
  }
}

ModedTheme

Structure for light and dark mode themes:

export interface ModedTheme {
  light: Theme;
  dark: Theme;
}

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please submit a pull request or open an issue on the GitHub repository for bug reports, feature requests, or improvements.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.