How to achieve @ mentions like twitter and facebook similar to https://github.com/linkedin/Spyglass using compose. Any suggestions or ideas?

Really shouldn't be hard to implement tokenization manually, I think the JetChat sample has something for that

Ok. Will look into it. Gotta give it a try.

I did this. It was one of the most fun tasks I've worked on with Compose. I used a core text field and used VisualTransformation. I suggest looking at how that works and rendering everything bold first, then render portions of the text bold next. Additionally, it might be fun to code than visually confirm it works, we were actually able to develop faster by writing this feature in unit tests first. https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/ui/text/input/VisualTransformation

Thanks i did exactly that. It was little difficult to actually figure out that i need to use transformation. Just one question - is it possible to delete the entire names that are spans on back press in soft keyboard rather than a character at a time.

I don't remember how I did it but I did.

Hmm. Need to explore this.

Write unit tests to test the interface. In my base I was looking for {{userid-xxx}}. If it detected that the last } got deleted then I'd return the entire backing string before the first {

Jetchat does not have this feature.

They usually have an internal representation that gets replaced

hmm. got it