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Paathak Kumar
Paathak Kumar

Reputation: 65

Using Emoticons in Android

I am setting text on a TextView. Text is getting fetched from an EditText. I am able to see all the text that i type in EditText***(Including Emotions/Emojis)***

Then can someone please explain why do we have Emoticons Library in Android ? I did not include any library in my gradle file. Still it works fine. I see all emojis typed in EditText finally in my TextView

Upvotes: 0

Views: 367

Answers (2)

luc4
luc4

Reputation: 81

The EmojiCompat support library aims to keep Android devices up to date with the latest emoji. It prevents your app from showing missing emoji characters in the form of ☐, which indicates that your device does not have a font to display the text. By using the EmojiCompat support library, your app users do not need to wait for Android OS updates to get the latest emoji.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/emoji-compat.html

So basically if your device supports all new Emojis, you should have no problem rendering those - even without the library.

Upvotes: 0

Arjun
Arjun

Reputation: 1342

The EmojiCompat support library aims to keep Android devices up to date with the latest emoji. It prevents your app from showing missing emoji characters in the form of ☐, which indicates that your device does not have a font to display the text. By using the EmojiCompat support library, your app users do not need to wait for Android OS updates to get the latest emoji.

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Upvotes: 1

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