emoticons

I want to detect whether my EditText contains smilie (emoticons) or not. But I have no idea that how to detect them. To disable emoji characters when typing on the keyboard I using the following filter: InputFilter filter = new InputFilter() { @Override public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) { for (int i = start; i < end; i++) { int type = Character.getType(source.charAt(i)); //System.out.println("Type : " + type); if (type == Character.SURROGATE || type == Character.OTHER_SYMBOL) { return ""; } } return null; } };

How to convert UTF16 (emoji) to HTML Entity (hex) using java I have the string from DB like this "\uD83D\uDE02". I try to display this unicode emoji, it displays as ��. I search in google to convert UTF16 to Html hex code. But i didnt get any solution. Please help me I will show this unicode to Emoji smily icon You can use emoji4j library for this. For example: String line = "Hi , i am fine \uD83D\uDE02 \uD83D\uDE02, how r u ?"; EmojiUtils.hexHtmlify(line); //Hi , i am fine 😂 😂, how r u ? Although the string appears to contain two Unicode characters, it's already one character encoded in UTF

I'm building a custom soft keyboard for android and would like to add a layout to include the emoji keys similar to what the default android keyboard (AOSP) is doing. I've searched around but it seems that most people are trying to display custom emoji from images. I'm looking to show the built-in icons that comes with Android (as shown below): It seems that I should be able to use the Unicode characters to send images from the keyboard, but my first attempt seems to generate only the older versions of the emojis. How do I support the latest emoji the phone can handle? Also, how do I display

I saved the face "savouring delicious food emoji" to database, and read it in php json_encode which show "uD83D\uDE0B"。 but usually we use one <img /> label to replace it . however,usually I just find this format '\uE056' not "uD83D\uDE0B",to replace with pic E056.png . I don't know how to get the pic accroding to 'uD83D\uDE0B'.someone know ? What the relation between 'uD83D\uDE0B' and '\uE056'， they both represent emoji "savouring delicious food"? The Unicode character U+1F60B FACE SAVOURING DELICIOUS FOOD is a so-called Plane 1 character, which means that its UTF-16 encoded form consists of

I wonder how whatsapp gives support for that. I could use emojis on iPhone because it is natively supported. I'm not developing for bb neither android but I need to help a coder with this stuff. The bb guy told me that he can add a font as a project resource (ttf), but since emojis are colored graphics, I'm not sure if i can create a ttf. I do not know anything about fonts either. As you can see, my unknowledge is huge on this. I just need some tips that point me to the right way to research. Thanks! On Android you can make a BitMap font with the tutorial i found here . Then you can embed all

I would like to find a table to convert the old school western ascii emoticons :-) into their modern unicode equivalent ☺. Do you know if there is one? Not everyone agrees on what is what, but here is one such possible table mapping input ASCII-art emoticons to Unicode emoji. Both data elements are single quoted, so backslashes and single quotes are escaped. 'o/' => '👋', '</3' => '💔', '<3' => '💗', '8-D' => '😁', '8D' => '😁', ':-D' => '😁', '=-3' => '😁', '=-D' => '😁', '=3' => '😁', '=D' => '😁', 'B^D' => '😁', 'X-D' => '😁', 'XD' => '😁', 'x-D' => '😁', 'xD' => '😁', ':\')' => '😂', ':\'-)' => '😂', ':-))