Not able to add GIF in flutter TextFormField

Question

I have a chat screen text box and a button. I want user to be able to select gif offered by keyboard and then insert into chat screen.

TextFormField does not allow user to select GIF. Code is as follows:

video link is https://imgur.com/MKJNH1A

Error - testapp doesn't support image insertion here.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      home: Scaffold(
        body: Center(
          child: Container(
            child: TextFormField(),
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Answer 1

Flutter's TextField, TextFormField or any text input boxes do not accept characters other than the ones specified in Unicode.

To use GIFs, images or any other widgets in a TextField, try using extended_text_field package.This is NOT an official package but it was planed to be endorsed by the flutter team according to #30688 (comment).

extended_text_field provides a widget named SpecialText. You could use the ImageSpan widget to add images in the text field (which includes GIFs).