How to implement Android material chips for contacts selection without a third party library?

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How can I implement Android Material Design chips without an external library. Google Apps have it inside their apps, so I guess that it should be available in the native SDK. If yes, how to implement it for a contacts selection functionality. Similar to the given screenshot.

@rookieDeveloper not yet! But basically, the concept goes around concatenating strings by a StrinbBuilder and then assign these strings to a textview. Give some style to the textview like padding, round corners,etc. — LEE, Nov 11 '16 at 13:41
Check out this answer. Should help. http://stackoverflow.com/a/41776777/2254969 — Ankit Aggarwal, Jan 21 '17 at 07:25
See My Answer and code sample https://stackoverflow.com/a/52007466/5439116 — Sourin Ghosh, Aug 24 '18 at 17:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '18 at 02:54

Google has officially released a library for it you can use that:

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0'
}

Then you just need to add it in XML, like this :

<chip
style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Chip.Entry"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:checkable="false"
app:chipIcon="@drawable/ic_android_24dp"
app:iconStartPadding="5dp"/>

Or you can add it dynamically as stated here: Stack Overflow Answer

Taken from Chips Example here. More info about chips is also stated here.

How to implement Android material chips for contacts selection without a third party library?

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