Overview
A Flutter text field that detects and highlights specific patterns like hashtags, @mentions, URLs, and custom regex patterns in real time. Designed for building social media apps similar to Twitter, it enhances user input with interactive text parsing. The package refines the functionality of its predecessor, hashtagable, by offering greater flexibility and customization. It supports multiple platforms including Android, iOS, Web, macOS, Windows, and Linux, making it ideal for cross-platform rich-text applications.
Use cases
- Social media app development
- Real-time text pattern detection
- Twitter-like input fields
- Custom text highlighting
- Rich text editing in messaging apps
- Interactive URL and tag recognition
Key features
- Supports custom regex pattern detection
- Real-time text parsing
- Configurable highlight styles
- Cross-platform compatibility
- Easy integration with existing TextField
- Extensible for additional pattern types
Suitable for
- Developers building social networking apps
- Apps requiring dynamic text formatting
- Teams creating rich-text input components
- Flutter developers targeting multiple platforms
- Users wanting advanced text field behavior
Considerations
- Requires careful regex configuration for custom patterns
- May impact performance with complex patterns
- Limited documentation beyond basic usage
- Not optimized for extremely long text inputs
- Depends on external GitHub repository for updates