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khalid bitar
khalid bitar

Reputation: 55

Emoji in android keyboard

I have developed android keyboard and I want to add emoji to it for example the code to view 'k' is 

<Key android:codes="107" android:keyLabel="k"/>

107 is the ascii code for 'k' letter you can find all ascii from this website http://www.addressmunger.com/special_ascii_characters/

if you searched for 'k' you will get &#107; and my problem is if I want to put this emoji for example 😒 the ascii I got is &#55357;&#56850; I don't know how to put this ascii in the xml .. any help?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1812

Answers (1)

Jon Goodwin
Jon Goodwin

Reputation: 9153

You should find this WILL NOT work:

<Key android:codes="0x1F602" android:keyLabel="0x1F602"/>

Instead in the .xml layout file, for each emoji you want to add, create a line like this:

    <!--'Face with tears of joy' -->
<Key android:codes="0x1F602" android:keyLabel="\ud83d\ude02"/>

😂 The "\ud83d\ude02" is called a Java Escape sequence (16 bit).

If your using the standard SoftKeyboard (or some derivative), you will have to change it to handle the escape characters. You should have a class called SoftKeyboard which extends InputMethodService. Inside there should be a method called handleCharacter. Change this line:

getCurrentInputConnection().commitText(String.valueOf((char) primaryCode), 0);

To this line:

getCurrentInputConnection().commitText(String.valueOf(Character.toChars(primaryCode)), 1);

Code Referenced from : display built-in emoji keys for inputmethod

Other References:
http://android.appstorm.net/how-to/customization/how-to-use-emojis-on-your-android-device/

Emoji Keyboard support for EditField in android

set font at runtime, Textview

Upvotes: 2

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