Canvas.drawText() doesn't render large emojis on Android

Question

Canvas.drawText() doesn\'t render emojis above a certain font size on Android.

Correct render at somewhere below 256 px:

Incorrect

Answer 1

I've come up with a test (an empirical estimation) for the maximum font size at which emojis can still be rendered.

The way this function works is it creates a 1x1 bitmap, and tries to draw the Earth Globe emoji (