It is a customizable library implementing macOS style emoji picker popover.
If you are interested in how I developed it and what difficulties I encountered in the process, you can read an article on Medium, Habr about it.
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- Does not support two part emojis. For example:
- Supported: 🤝🏻 🤝🏿
- Not supported: 🫱🏿🫲🏻 🫱🏼🫲🏿
If you know how to fix it - welcome to the discussion.
If you use a MCEmojiPicker, add your application via Pull Request. Fore more information you can see contribution guide.
- Swift
4.2&5.0 - Ready for use on iOS 12.0+
- SwiftUI is supported from iOS 13.0
CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Cocoa projects. For usage and installation instructions, visit their website. To integrate MCEmojiPicker into your Xcode project using CocoaPods, specify it in your Podfile:
pod 'MCEmojiPicker'The Swift Package Manager is a tool for managing the distribution of Swift code. It’s integrated with the Swift build system to automate the process of downloading, compiling, and linking dependencies.
To integrate MCEmojiPicker into your Xcode project using Xcode 11, specify it in Project > Swift Packages:
https://github.com/izyumkin/MCEmojiPicker
If you prefer not to use any of the aforementioned dependency managers, you can integrate MCEmojiPicker into your project manually. Put Source/MCEmojiPicker folder in your Xcode project. Make sure to enable Copy items if needed and Create groups.
Create UIButton and add selector as action:
@objc private func selectEmojiAction(_ sender: UIButton) {
let viewController = MCEmojiPickerViewController()
viewController.delegate = self
viewController.sourceView = sender
present(viewController, animated: true)
}And then recieve emoji in the delegate method:
extension ViewController: MCEmojiPickerDelegate {
func didGetEmoji(emoji: String) {
emojiButton.setTitle(emoji, for: .normal)
}
}Color for the selected emoji category. The default value of this property is .systemBlue.
viewController.selectedEmojiCategoryTintColor = .systemRedThe direction of the arrow for EmojiPicker. The default value of this property is .up.
viewController.arrowDirection = .upInset from the sourceView border. The default value of this property is 0.
viewController.horizontalInset = 0Defines whether to dismiss emoji picker or not after choosing. The default value of this property is true.
viewController.isDismissAfterChoosing = trueCustom height for EmojiPicker. The default value of this property is nil.
viewController.customHeight = 300Feedback generator style. To turn off, set nil to this parameter. The default value of this property is .light.
viewController.feedBackGeneratorStyle = .softUse like system popover. All settings are available in the method initializer.
Button(selectedEmoji) {
isPresented.toggle()
}.emojiPicker(
isPresented: $isPresented,
selectedEmoji: $selectedEmoji
)or interact directly with the SwiftUI wrapper for the MCEmojiPickerViewController:
MCEmojiPickerRepresentableController(
isPresented: $isPresented,
selectedEmoji: $selectedEmoji,
arrowDirection: .up,
customHeight: 380.0,
horizontalInset: .zero,
isDismissAfterChoosing: true,
selectedEmojiCategoryTintColor: .systemBlue,
feedBackGeneratorStyle: .light
)🌍 This library supports all existing localizations
- The main functionality for choosing emojis
- Dark mode
- Segmented control for jumping an emoji section
- Automatic adjustment of the relevant set of emoji for the iOS version
- Select skin tones from popup
- Frequently used
- Search bar and search results