Android : How to programmatically open the soft keyboard in Emoji View

Question

As I see, a way to show default emojis on android is by using the following on an input text.

android:inputType=\"textMultiLine|textShortMessage\"

Answer 1

Maybe this will help you:

https://blog.swiftkey.com/tech-blog-android-input-method-subtypes/

There is something like an Emoji Subtype as you can see following the link below.

public static RichInputMethodSubtype getEmojiSubtype()

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/inputmethods/LatinIME/+/master/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/RichInputMethodSubtype.java