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dennybill

Posted on May 15, 2023

How to use emoji in android?

#whatsapp #help

I am working on a chat app using firebase, and now I want to use emoji in my app. Can any one tell me how yo use emoji in android.

So I want to have a keyboard in my app that has emoji just like Whatsapp or Hangouts. How can I do that? I want to leave my key keyboard as it is I just want to add tabs to put emojis. I would think it would be easily supported by the soft keyboard but I can find nothing so far. Anyone could tell how to do it?

Top comments (2)

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Tyler V. (he/him) • May 30 '23

I would have expected emoji could just be handled by the normal android keyboard - but based on the existence of this GitHub Repo I guess not 😅

vanniktech / Emoji

A library to add Emoji support to your Android / JVM Application

Emoji

A Kotlin Multiplatform library to add Emoji support to your Android App / JVM Backend.

JVM
- Check out the sample jvm module for text parsing / searching functionality
Android
- Picking
  - EmojiPopup - PopupWindow which overalys over the soft keyboard
  - EmojiView - Normal view which is used by EmojiPopup and can also be used as a standalone to select emojis via categories
- Displaying (Android)
  - EmojiAutoCompleteTextView
  - EmojiButton
  - EmojiCheckbox
  - EmojiEditText
  - EmojiMultiAutoCompleteTextView
  - EmojiTextView
  - For convenience, there's also a EmojiLayoutFactory, which can be used to get automatic Emoji support when using normal Android Views such as TextView, Checkbox, etc.

The library has 4 different sprites providers to choose from (iOS, Google, Facebook & Twitter). The emoji's are packaged as pictures and loaded at runtime. If you want to use a Font provider, check out Google Compat.