Emoji support for Android down to API level 8 (Android 2.2)
Android 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean) introduced AndroidEmoji.ttf as a fallback font to display emoji symbols from Unicode 6.0.
Android 4.4 (KitKat) added NotoColorEmoji.ttf as a new emoji font.
Thus all Android versions prior to Android 4.1.1 do not display emoji at all.
When you call AndroidEmoji.ensure(...) from this library on a string, it makes sure that the emoji contained in the string will be displayed correctly on all Android versions. This is done by setting a custom font for the single emoji symbols in the text.
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String myString;
TextView myTextView;
...
myTextView.setText(AndroidEmoji.ensure(myString));
- Even with this library, your app cannot display emoji that are not in the EmojiSources.txt file. This is normal behaviour for Android versions prior to 4.4 (KitKat), however, because
AndroidEmoji.ttfdoes not contain newer emoji.
- AndroidEmoji.ttf by The Android Open Source Project (Apache License, Version 2.0)
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