How to add chips from Material Components library to input field in android?

Question

I\'ve seen that in android-P google add new material components library which contains material chips:

Material components for android

Material.io chips us

Answer 1

All of the previous solutions didn't work for me if you want to achieve a gmail like behaviour with chips on multiple lines. In order to do that I had to avoid using the ChipGroup and instead using a FlexboxLayout.

your_recipient_layout:

The trick now is adding a new chip to the group but as second last position. Something like this:

private fun addNewChip(person: String, chipGroup: FlexboxLayout) {
    val chip = Chip(context)
    chip.text = person
    chip.chipIcon = ContextCompat.getDrawable(requireContext(), R.mipmap.ic_launcher_round)
    chip.isCloseIconEnabled = true
    chip.isClickable = true
    chip.isCheckable = false
    chipGroup.addView(chip as View, chipGroup.childCount - 1)
    chip.setOnCloseIconClickListener { chipGroup.removeView(chip as View) }
}