Android Replace all Occurrences of a text with a Html.fromHtml span

Question

I need to display GIF emoticons within my textviews therefore I decided to replace all the occurrences of emoticons with their respective gif image using Html span. However I need a helping hand with replacing all occurrences of the emoji characters.

For example:

I had a good day (smile)

should be replaced by

I had a good day <img src: "path" />

What I was able to code so far:

string regex = " "; //this is where I need help with the regex
String output = comment.getComment().replaceAll(regex, "<img src='PATH' ");
commenttext.setText(Html.fromHtml(output));

Answer 1

If you simply do this String regex = "(\\(smile\\))"; This would replace all the (smile) occurrences. This is quite easy to do. Is this what you are looking for?