Ionic4EmojiPicker

Emoji picker with slides and tabs (like emoji picker on Whatsapp) This library was generated with Angular CLI version 8.2.14.

Installation

Run npm i ionic4-emoji-picker --save to install this library.

Usage

After installing this package with npm i ionic4-emoji-picker --save, import the Ionic4EmojiPickerModule in your module. Eg: inside home.module.ts:

` import { Ionic4EmojiPickerModule } from 'ionic4-emoji-picker';

@NgModule({
  ...
  imports: [
   Ionic4EmojiPickerModule //Import the main module
  ],
 ...
})
export class HomeModule { }`

Add emoji picker to a component: As Selector

Use <emoji-picker></emoji-picker> to import the module inside a component's html

Note:To avoid loading all the emojies again and again, don't use *ngIf to show/hide the emoji picker. Instead, set the height of cantainer to 0px for hiding the component.

Chat style emoji picker example: Inside your .html file

  <ion-row class="input-position">
    <ion-col size="1">
      <ion-icon (click)="showEmojiPicker = !showEmojiPicker" color="secondary" name="happy" style="zoom:2;"></ion-icon>
    </ion-col>
    <ion-col size="9">
      <ion-input type="text" placeholder="Type a message" [(ngModel)]="newmessage" padding-start>
    </ion-input>
    </ion-col>
    <ion-col size="2" text-right>
        <ion-icon (click)="addmessage()" color="secondary" name="send" style="zoom:2;"></ion-icon>
   </ion-col>
  </ion-row>

  <div class="emojiContainer" [style.height]="showEmojiPicker?'300px':'0px'"> <!--Show/Hide emoji picker. Don't use *ngIf because the component will be created again and again and cause performance issue-->
    <emoji-picker (onEmojiSelect)="addEmoji($event)"></emoji-picker>
  </div>

</ion-footer>

In your .ts file showEmojiPicker:boolean=false; //To show/hide emoji picker addEmoji(event) { this.newmessage=this.newmessage+event.data; //Concatinate the emoji with text }

onEmojiSelect Event

When user will select an emoji, onEmojiSelect event is fired. You can listen to this event by binding it to a local method. event.data will contain the actual emoji.

Use Emoji Picker Modal

You can also use emoji picker inside a modal:

import {Ionic4EmojiPickerComponent} from 'ionic4-emoji-picker'; //Import the component

...

`async openEmojiPicker() {

const modal=await this.modalCtrl.create(
  {
    component:Ionic4EmojiPickerComponent,
    showBackdrop:true,
    componentProps:
    {
      isInModal:true
    }
  });

  modal.present();

  //Listen to emoji select event emmited from the modal
  modal.onDidDismiss().then(event=>
    {
      console.log('Got Data From Emoji Picker',event);
      if(event!=undefined && event.data!=undefined)
      {
        this.yourMessage+=event.data; //Add emoji to the yourMessage string
      }
    });

}`

modal.onDidDismiss() Promise can be used to get the selected emoji.

Further help

For any questions, please raise an issue in the github repository https://github.com/Pankaj-Sati/ionic4-emoji-picker