Emoji

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Emoji, Android Jetpack UI Components, Enable an up-to-date emoji font on older platforms

The EmojiCompat support library is used to make sure Android devices will have up to date emoji, and are available for your app.

The EmojiCompat support library, supported from Android 4.4 (API level 19) and higher. for lower version devices prior to API level 19, the EmojiCompat and its widgets are in a "no operation" state. and the emoji will be displayed exactly like a regular TextView.

Add EmojiCompat support library to App Project

Add it in dependencies section of build.gradle file of your app.

    dependencies {
        ...
        implementation "com.android.support:support-emoji:28.0.0"
    }

Initializing EmojiCompat

Initialize EmojiCompat in app to load the metadata and the typeface. the initialization process runs on a background thread and can take some time.

• Create an instance of the FontRequest class.
• Create an instance of FontRequestEmojiCompatConfig.
• Initialize EmojiCompat by calling the init().

Initializing EmojiCompat Code

    FontRequest fontRequestObject = new FontRequest(
        "com.ft.fontprovider",
        "com.ft",
        "emoji Font Query",
        SSL_CERTIFICATES);
    EmojiCompat.Config configObject = new FontRequestEmojiCompatConfig( this, fontRequestObject);
    EmojiCompat.init( configObject);

Emoji Views / Widgets

Widget	Class
EmojiTextView	android.support.text.emoji.widget.EmojiTextView
EmojiEditText	android.support.text.emoji.widget.EmojiEditText
EmojiButton	android.support.text.emoji.widget.EmojiButton

Emoji Views / Widgets for AppCompat

for using Emoji Widgets in AppCompat,- use EmojiCompat widgets that extend from AppCompat widgets.

Add the AppCompat support library to the dependencies section of build.gradle file of your app.

    dependencies {
        ...
        implementation "com.android.support:support-emoji-appcompat:$version"
    }

Widget	Class
EmojiAppCompatTextView	android.support.text.emoji.widget.EmojiAppCompatTextView
EmojiAppCompatEditText	android.support.text.emoji.widget.EmojiAppCompatEditText
EmojiAppCompatButton	android.support.text.emoji.widget.EmojiAppCompatButton