Detecting if a character in a String is an emoticon (using Android)

Question

Like the title says. I want to find out if a given java String contains an emoticon.

I can\'t use Character.UnicodeBlock.of(char) == Character.UnicodeBlock.EMO

Answer 1

Try this...

if (Integer.parseInt("1f600", 16) <= (int)'☺' && (int)'☺' <= Integer.parseInt("1f64f", 16)) {
    Print.d("Unicode", "groovy!");
}

This might work because the hexidecimal value and the char value are both being converted to ints.