Emoji Mart Native is a Slack-like customizable
emoji picker component for React Native ported from [Emoji Mart]
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Installation

npm install --save emoji-mart-native

Components

Picker

Renders inline-block & center aligned if parent is wider than picker. To render picker in a fullscreen modal use <ModalPicker />.

1import { Picker } from 'emoji-mart-native'
2
3<Picker set='google' />
4<Picker onSelect={this.addEmoji} />
5<Picker title='Pick your emoji…' emoji='point_up' />
6<Picker style={{ position: 'absolute', bottom: 20, right: 20 }} />
7<Picker i18n={{ search: 'Recherche', categories: { search: 'Résultats de recherche', recent: 'Récents' } }} />

Prop	Required	Default	Description
autoFocus		false	Auto focus the search input when mounted
color		#ae65c5	The top bar anchors select and hover color
emoji		department_store	The emoji shown when no emojis are hovered, set to an empty string to show nothing
include		[]	Only load included categories. Accepts I18n categories keys. Order will be respected, except for the recent category which will always be the first.
exclude		[]	Don't load excluded categories. Accepts I18n categories keys.
custom		[]	Custom emojis
recent			Pass your own frequently used emojis as array of string IDs
enableFrequentEmojiSort		false	Instantly sort “Frequently Used” category
emojiSize		24	The emoji width and height
onClick			Params: (emoji, event) => {}. Not called when emoji is selected with enter
onSelect			Params: (emoji) => {}
onSkinChange			Params: (skin) => {}
showCloseButton		false	Shows the close button which triggers onPressClose
onPressClose			Trigger when user press close button
perLine		9	Number of emojis per line. While there’s no minimum or maximum, this will affect the picker’s width. This will set Frequently Used length as well (perLine * 4)
pagesToEagerLoad		2	Number of pages to eager load each side of currently active page.
i18n		{…}	An object containing localized strings
native		false	Renders the native unicode emoji
set		apple	The emoji set: 'apple', 'google', 'twitter', 'facebook'
theme		light	The picker theme: 'auto', 'light', 'dark' Note: auto uses Appearance and only works when using react-native 0.62.0 or above
sheetSize		64	The emoji sheet size: 16, 20, 32, 64
spriteSheetFn		((set, sheetSize) => …)	A Fn that returns the image sheet to use for emojis. Useful for avoiding a request if you have the sheet locally.
useLocalImages		false	Local image requires
emojisToShowFilter		((emoji) => true)	A Fn to choose whether an emoji should be displayed or not
showPreview		true	Display preview section
showSkinTones		true	Display skin tones picker
emojiTooltip		false	Show emojis short name when hovering (title)
skin			Forces skin color: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
defaultSkin		1	Default skin color: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
skinEmoji			The emoji used to pick a skin tone. Uses an emoji-less skin tone picker by default
style			Inline styles applied to the root element. Useful for positioning
notFoundEmoji		sleuth_or_spy	The emoji shown when there are no search results
notFound			Not found
categoryEmojis		{}	Custom category emojis

I18n

1search: 'Search',
2notfound: 'No Emoji Found',
3categories: {
4  search: 'Search Results',
5  recent: 'Frequently Used',
6  people: 'Smileys & People',
7  nature: 'Animals & Nature',
8  foods: 'Food & Drink',
9  activity: 'Activity',
10  places: 'Travel & Places',
11  objects: 'Objects',
12  symbols: 'Symbols',
13  flags: 'Flags',
14  custom: 'Custom',
15}

SpriteSheetFn

By default the picker source the emoji sheets online, this may not be the best solution and you may want to bundle the emoji sheets with your app. For the best results it's recommended to include any emoji sheets you use in the platform specific app package.

You can either provide your own emoji sheets or use ones available from libraries such as iamcal/emoji-data:

npm install emoji-datasource-apple
npm install emoji-datasource-google
npm install emoji-datasource-twitter
npm install emoji-datasource-facebook

1import { Picker } from 'emoji-mart-native'
2
3const localSpriteSheets = {
4  ...
5  twitter: {
6    ...
7    '20': {uri: `https://unpkg.com/emoji-datasource@5.0.1/sheet_${set}_${sheetSize}.png`}, // Loads asset from web
8    '32': require('./node_modules/emoji-datasource-twitter/img/twitter/sheets/32.png'), // Loads static asset
9    '64': {uri: 'twitter_emoji_64'}, // Loads asset from app package
10  },
11  ...
12};
13
14<Picker spriteSheetFn={(set, sheetSize) =>
15  {uri: `https://unpkg.com/emoji-datasource@5.0.1/sheet_${set}_${sheetSize}.png`}
16}>
17<Picker spriteSheetFn={(set, sheetSize) =>
18  localSpriteSheets[set][sheetSize]
19}>

Sheet sizes

Sheets are served from unpkg, a global CDN that serves files published to npm.

Set	Size (sheetSize: 16)	Size (sheetSize: 20)	Size (sheetSize: 32)	Size (sheetSize: 64)
apple	407 KB	561 KB	1.34 MB	3.60 MB
facebook	416 KB	579 KB	1.38 MB	3.68 MB
google	362 KB	489 KB	1.12 MB	2.78 MB
twitter	361 KB	485 KB	1.05 MB	2.39 MB

Datasets

While all sets are available by default, you may want to include only a single set data to reduce the size of your bundle.

Set	Size (on disk)
all	611 KB
apple	548 KB
facebook	468 KB
google	518 KB
twitter	517 KB

To use these data files (or any other custom data), use the NimblePicker component:

1import data from 'emoji-mart-native/data/google.json'
2import {NimblePicker} from 'emoji-mart-native'
3
4<NimblePicker set='google' data={data} />

Examples of emoji object:

1{
2  id: 'smiley',
3  name: 'Smiling Face with Open Mouth',
4  colons: ':smiley:',
5  text: ':)',
6  emoticons: [
7    '=)',
8    '=-)'
9  ],
10  skin: null,
11  native: '😃'
12}
13
14{
15  id: 'santa',
16  name: 'Father Christmas',
17  colons: ':santa::skin-tone-3:',
18  text: '',
19  emoticons: [],
20  skin: 3,
21  native: '🎅🏼'
22}
23
24{
25  id: 'octocat',
26  name: 'Octocat',
27  colons: ':octocat:',
28  text: '',
29  emoticons: [],
30  custom: true,
31  image: {uri: 'https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/octocat.png'}
32}

Local image requires

By default the picker source the emoji images online, this may not be the best solution and you may want to bundle the emojis with your app.

Set	Size (on disk)
all	1.6 MB
apple	776 KB
facebook	690 KB
google	742 KB
twitter	752 KB

To use local image requires you need to install the individual sets you need in your project using the individual sets npm packages from https://github.com/iamcal/emoji-data#installation:

npm install emoji-datasource-apple
npm install emoji-datasource-google
npm install emoji-datasource-twitter
npm install emoji-datasource-facebook

1import { NimblePicker, NimbleEmoji } from 'emoji-mart-native'
2import data from 'emoji-mart-native/data/facebook.json'
3import dataRequires from 'emoji-mart-native/data/local-images/facebook'
4const {emojis: localEmojis} = dataRequires
5<NimblePicker set='facebook' data={data} useLocalImages={localEmojis} />
6<NimbleEmoji emoji='santa' set='facebook' data={data} useLocalImages={localEmojis} size={16} />

ModalPicker

Renders the picker in a fullscreen modal.

1import {ModalPicker} from 'emoji-mart-native'
2;<ModalPicker isVisible={true} showCloseButton />

Prop	Required	Default	Description
...PickerProps
isVisible		false	When true shows the modal with the picker

EmojiButton

Renders an emoji button that can be used to trigger showing a hidden picker.

1import { EmojiButton } from 'emoji-mart-native'
2const emojiImage = require('assets/emoji-image.png')
3
4<EmojiButton onButtonPress={showPickerTrigger} />
5<EmojiButton onButtonPress={showPickerTrigger} buttonImage={emojiImage} />
6<EmojiButton onButtonPress={showPickerTrigger} buttonImage={{uri: 'https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/octocat.png'}} />

Prop	Required	Default	Description
onButtonPress			Trigger when user press the button
buttonImage			The image used for rendering the button (Renders 18px by 18px)

Emoji

1import { Emoji } from 'emoji-mart-native'
2
3<Emoji emoji={{ id: 'santa', skin: 3 }} size={16} />
4<Emoji emoji=':santa::skin-tone-3:' size={16} />
5<Emoji emoji='santa' set='google' size={16} />

Prop	Required	Default	Description
emoji	✓		Either a string or an emoji object
size	✓		The emoji width and height.
native		false	Renders the native unicode emoji
onPress			Params: (emoji, event) => {}
onLongPress			Params: (emoji, event) => {}
fallback			Params: (emoji, props) => {}
set		apple	The emoji set: 'apple', 'google', 'twitter', 'facebook'
sheetSize		64	The emoji sheet size: 16, 20, 32, 64
spriteSheetFn		((set, sheetSize) => {uri: `https://unpkg.com/emoji-datasource@5.0.1/sheet_${set}_${sheetSize}.png`})	A Fn that returns the image sheet to use for emojis. Useful for avoiding a request if you have the sheet locally.
useLocalImages		false	Local image requires
skin		1	Skin color: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
tooltip		false	Show emoji short name when hovering (title)
html		false	Returns an HTML string to use with dangerouslySetInnerHTML

Unsupported emojis fallback

Certain sets don’t support all emojis. By default the Emoji component will not render anything so that the emojis’ don’t take space in the picker when not available. When using the standalone Emoji component, you can however render anything you want by providing the fallback props.

To have the component render :shrug: you would need to:

1<Emoji
2  set={'apple'}
3  emoji={'shrug'}
4  size={24}
5  fallback={(emoji, props) => {
6    return emoji ? `:${emoji.short_names[0]}:` : props.emoji
7  }}
8/>

Custom emojis

You can provide custom emojis which will show up in their own category. You can either use a single image as image or use a spritesheet as spriteSheet.

1import { Picker, NimbleEmoji, getEmojiDataFromCustom } from 'emoji-mart-native'
2
3const customEmojis = [
4  {
5    name: 'Octocat',
6    short_names: ['octocat'],
7    text: '',
8    emoticons: [],
9    keywords: ['github'],
10    image: {uri: 'https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/octocat.png'},
11    customCategory: 'GitHub'
12  },
13  {
14    name: 'Trollface',
15    short_names: ['troll', 'trollface'],
16    text: '',
17    emoticons: [],
18    keywords: ['troll'],
19    image: require('assets/trollface.png')
20  },
21  {
22    name: 'Test Flag',
23    short_names: ['test'],
24    text: '',
25    emoticons: [],
26    keywords: ['test', 'flag'],
27    spriteSheet: {uri: 'https://unpkg.com/emoji-datasource-twitter@5.0.1/img/twitter/sheets-256/64.png'},
28    sheet_x: 1,
29    sheet_y: 1,
30    size: 64,
31    sheetColumns: 57,
32    sheetRows: 57
33  },
34  {
35    name: 'Test Flag',
36    short_names: ['test'],
37    text: '',
38    emoticons: [],
39    keywords: ['test', 'flag'],
40    spriteSheet: require('assets/twitter/sheets-256/64.png'),
41    sheet_x: 1,
42    sheet_y: 1,
43    size: 64,
44    sheetColumns: 57,
45    sheetRows: 57
46  }
47]
48
49<Picker custom={customEmojis} />
50
51const emoji = getEmojiDataFromCustom('troll', customEmojis, emojiData);
52
53<NimbleEmoji
54  data={emojiData}
55  custom={customEmojis}
56  skin={emoji.skin || null}
57  set={emojiSet}
58  emoji={emoji}
59  size={16}
60/>

The customCategory string is optional. If you include it, then the custom emoji will be shown in whatever categories you define. If you don't include it, then there will just be one category called "Custom".

Not found

You can provide a custom Not Found object which will allow the appearance of the not found search results to change. In this case, we change the default 'sleuth_or_spy' emoji to Octocat when our search finds no results.

1import { Picker } from 'emoji-mart'
2
3const notFound = () => <Image style={{width: 48, height: 48}} source={{ uri: "https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/octocat.png" }} />
4
5<Picker notFound={notFound} />

Custom category emojis

You can provide custom emojis for the category anchors. You only need to supply the ones you want changed from the default ones.

1import { Picker } from 'emoji-mart'
2
3const categoryEmojis = {
4  recent: 'fire',
5  people: 'see_no_evil',
6  nature: 'beetle',
7  foods: 'kiwifruit',
8  activity: 'table_tennis_paddle_and_ball',
9  places: 'airplane',
10  objects: 'postal_horn',
11  symbols: 'copyright',
12  flags: 'triangular_flag_on_post',
13  custom: 'hammer_and_wrench',
14}
15
16<Picker categoryEmojis={categoryEmojis} />

Headless search

The Picker doesn’t have to be mounted for you to take advantage of the advanced search results.

1import {emojiIndex} from 'emoji-mart-native'
2
3emojiIndex.search('christmas').map((o) => o.native)
4// => [🎄, 🎅🏼, 🔔, 🎁, ⛄️, ❄️]

With custom data

1import data from 'emoji-mart-native/datasets/facebook'
2import {NimbleEmojiIndex} from 'emoji-mart-native'
3
4let emojiIndex = new NimbleEmojiIndex(data)
5emojiIndex.search('christmas')

Get emoji data from Native

You can get emoji data from native emoji unicode using the getEmojiDataFromNative util function.

1import { getEmojiDataFromNative, Emoji } from 'emoji-mart-native'
2import data from 'emoji-mart-native/data/all.json'
3
4const emojiData = getEmojiDataFromNative('🏊🏽‍♀️', 'apple', data)
5
6<Emoji
7  emoji={emojiData}
8  set={'apple'}
9  skin={emojiData.skin || 1}
10  size={48}
11/>

Example of emojiData object:

1emojiData: {
2  "id": "woman-swimming",
3  "name": "Woman Swimming",
4  "colons": ":woman-swimming::skin-tone-4:",
5  "emoticons": [],
6  "unified": "1f3ca-1f3fd-200d-2640-fe0f",
7  "skin": 4,
8  "native": "🏊🏽‍♀️"
9}

Storage

By default EmojiMartNative will store user chosen skin and frequently used emojis in localStorage. That can however be overwritten should you want to store these in your own storage.

1import {store} from 'emoji-mart-native'
2
3store.setHandlers({
4  getter: (key) => {
5    // Get from your own storage (sync)
6  },
7
8  setter: (key, value) => {
9    // Persist in your own storage (can be async)
10  },
11})

Possible keys are:

Key	Value	Description
skin	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
frequently	{ 'astonished': 11, '+1': 22 }	An object where the key is the emoji name and the value is the usage count
last	'astonished'	(Optional) Used by frequently to be sure the latest clicked emoji will always appear in the “Recent” category

Features

Powerful search

Short name, name and keywords

Not only does Emoji Mart Native return more results than most emoji picker, they’re more accurate and sorted by relevance.

Emoticons

The only emoji picker that returns emojis when searching for emoticons.

Results intersection

For better results, Emoji Mart Native split search into words and only returns results matching both terms.

Fully customizable

Anchors color, title and default emoji

Emojis sizes and length

Default skin color

As the developer, you have control over which skin color is used by default.

It can however be overwritten as per user preference.

Multiple sets supported

Apple / Google / Twitter / Facebook

Not opinionated

Emoji Mart Native doesn’t automatically insert anything into a text input, nor does it show or hide itself. It simply returns an emoji object. It’s up to the developer to mount/unmount (it’s fast!) and position the picker. You can use the returned object as props for the EmojiMartNative.Emoji component. You could also use emoji.colons to insert text into a textarea or emoji.native to use the emoji.

Removing prop-types

To remove prop-types in production, use babel-plugin-transform-react-remove-prop-types:

1npm install --save-dev babel-plugin-transform-react-remove-prop-types

Then add to your .babelrc:

1"plugins": [
2  [
3    "transform-react-remove-prop-types",
4    {
5      "removeImport": true,
6      "additionalLibraries": [
7        "../../utils/shared-props"
8      ]
9    }
10  ]
11]

You'll also need to ensure that Babel is transpiling emoji-mart-native, e.g. by not excluding node_modules in babel-loader.

Development

1yarn build

In two separate tabs:

1yarn start
2yarn storybook

The storybook is hosted at localhost:6006, and the code will be built on-the-fly.

Testing Changes

To easier test changes as you make them, you can run yarn build:link -- --out-dir /$project/node_modules/emoji-mart-native/dist replacing $project with your projects or the example apps location.

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