Is it feasible, to use TextView in AXEmojiRecyclerAdapter, if we only intent to support Google emoji in Android only?

[yccheok]

Thank you for providing such useful framework.

Currently, our requirements are

• Providing an emoji picker
• Support Google emoji only
• Will only run in Android

I notice by using AXEmojiView-GoogleProvider, it can full-fill our requirement. However, the project itself come with >3000 PNG files, with total size >15MB.

We only plan to use TextView and EditText for rendering.

We prefer not to use a predefined PNG image files in our case. Not only it consumes more space, it will also outdated, if Google ever change their emoji look n feel, in future Android release.

I was wondering, is it feasible for us, to use TextView in AXEmojiRecyclerAdapter?

For instance, changing the code from

@NonNull
@Override
public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup viewGroup, int i) {
    FrameLayout frameLayout = new FrameLayout(viewGroup.getContext());
    AXEmojiImageView emojiView = new AXEmojiImageView(viewGroup.getContext());
    int cw = Utils.getColumnWidth(viewGroup.getContext());
    frameLayout.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(cw, cw));
    frameLayout.addView(emojiView);

    int dp6 = Utils.dpToPx(viewGroup.getContext(), 6);
    emojiView.setPadding(dp6, dp6, dp6, dp6);

    return new ViewHolder(frameLayout);
}

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull ViewHolder viewHolder, int i) {
    FrameLayout frameLayout = (FrameLayout) viewHolder.itemView;
    final AXEmojiImageView emojiView = (AXEmojiImageView) frameLayout.getChildAt(0);

    Emoji emoji = emojis.get(i);
    emojiView.setEmoji(variantEmoji.getVariant(emoji));
    //ImageLoadingTask currentTask = new ImageLoadingTask(emojiView);
    //currentTask.executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR, emoji, null, null);
    emojiView.setOnEmojiActions(events, false);

}

to

@NonNull
@Override
public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup viewGroup, int i) {
    FrameLayout frameLayout = new FrameLayout(viewGroup.getContext());
    AXEmojiImageView emojiView = new AXEmojiImageView(viewGroup.getContext());
    int cw = Utils.getColumnWidth(viewGroup.getContext());
    frameLayout.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(cw, cw));
    //frameLayout.addView(emojiView);

    TextView textView = new TextView(viewGroup.getContext());
    textView.setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
    textView.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 24);
    frameLayout.addView(textView);

    int dp6 = Utils.dpToPx(viewGroup.getContext(), 6);
    emojiView.setPadding(dp6, dp6, dp6, dp6);

    return new ViewHolder(frameLayout);
}

@Override
public void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull ViewHolder viewHolder, int i) {
    FrameLayout frameLayout = (FrameLayout) viewHolder.itemView;
    final TextView emojiView = (TextView) frameLayout.getChildAt(0);

    Emoji emoji = emojis.get(i);
    emojiView.setText(variantEmoji.getVariant(emoji).getUnicode());

    //ImageLoadingTask currentTask = new ImageLoadingTask(emojiView);
    //currentTask.executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.THREAD_POOL_EXECUTOR, emoji, null, null);
    //emojiView.setOnEmojiActions(events, false);

}

(I know the code is not yet handle hasVariants. But, this is the basic idea)

I was wondering, is it feasible, to use TextView in AXEmojiRecyclerAdapter, if we only intent to support Google emoji in Android only? It seems possible from initial testing. But, I may be missing out something.

Thank you.