Emoji symbol

Question

I would like to integrate the emoji symbol

Answer 1

The fix for that is: Add "--utf16" to aapt by adding

android {
    aaptOptions {
        additionalParameters '--utf16'
    }
}

to your build.gradle file, and make sure you are not using aapt2.

See https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/37140916

Answer 2

It seems that newer versions of Android don't cause the crash (API 24 worked in my tests), but that doesn't help if you are supporting older versions. The best I have been able to figure out is to use Java coded strings.

public class AppEmojiStrings {

    // This is only a workaround for emoji causing crashes in XML strings.
    // Use the standard strings.xml for all other strings.

    public static final String thumbsUp = "Thumbs up