MentionEditText adds some useful features for mention string(@xxxx), such as highlight, intelligent deletion, intelligent selection and '@' input detection, etc.
Insert the following dependency to build.gradle file of your project.
repositories { maven { url "https://jitpack.io" } } dependencies { compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:24.2.1' compile 'com.github.luckyandyzhang:MentionEditText:1.0.0' }Use MentionEditText like a normal EditText:
<io.github.luckyandyzhang.mentionedittext.MentionEditText android:id="@+id/editText" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />In Java code:
MentionEditText editText = ((MentionEditText) findViewById(R.id.editText)); List<String> mentionList = editText.getMentionList(true); //get a list of mention string editText.setMentionTextColor(Color.RED); //optional, set highlight color of mention string editText.setPattern("@[\\u4e00-\\u9fa5\\w\\-]+"); //optional, set regularExpression editText.setOnMentionInputListener(new MentionEditText.OnMentionInputListener() { @Override public void onMentionCharacterInput() { //call when '@' character is inserted into EditText } });Copyright 2016 Andy Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.