I want to build a plugin with custom Emoji pack, so when a user will download and install it he could use my custom Emoji.
My Emoji will be very different from the known Emoji and I do realize
that user without my plugin won't be able to see my custom Emoji's.
I tried to use the most popular Emoji's app in Google play like:
Kika Emoji Keyboard
But the experience is very bad, the emoji just look different on the keyboard but when I used them in an app like whatsapp they look the same as the built in ones..
So, my question is:
How can i build a custom plugin with my custom Emoji pack so when a user will install it he could use my Emoji's together with the regular Emoji's?
Thanks.
you can use your custom emojis within your app but you can't use those in other apps as custom unicodes are not supported by android unless you use within your app.For instance most of the emojis supported by Skype are not supported by another apps.
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I have an older version of Android. Lots of the emojis in my keyboard are not visible in my phone. I can send them, recieve them, but all I see is a cross with box on all around.
I wanna know if there's any way that I can add support for the newest emoji's to my device
I tried to download fonts, but couldn't manage to add them to my system.
I am currently making a messenger app for android, and I just added emoticons. Now, I looked at the WhatsApp UI and I realized that they use the iOS emoticons for everything (even the ActionBar) and I was wondering how they had done this.
Is it possible to change Android's emoji texture atlas just for my app or something like that, and if so, where can I get these iOS emoticons and how do I implement that? Or do I have to write my own TextView / EditText / ... and my own emoji keyboard for it to look like WhatsApp's?
Thanks
Edit: I found out that there is an "Apple Color Emoji.ttf" without license that supports these emojis. Can I use this on android?
I am working on an Android chatting application. I need to show, a smileys or emoji's keyboard, like that of 'Whats App'. Is there any such default keyboard for Android? If yes, how do I implement it?
This largely depends on what the user currently has installed. I use SwiftKey on my phone so I have the ability to use the Emoji's. If you are willing to put in the effort to create your own Emoji keyboard then toobsco42 has a great basic explanation of the process as well as a link to a repo that you can use.
i would say start by getting the font with all the unicode charset for your application and render them in an layout invoked on the button in your input field.
One of the website to create custom fonts : icomoon.io
I want to be able to send messages between android and ios devices with the use of emojis.
I know the new android 4.4 supports emoji now but I want to support older devices (2.1 and up).
How do apps like whatsapp allow emojis to be written and viewed even though it is not supported? The only way I could think to accomplish this task is to create custom emojis by creating an image of many emojis and then using the x,y coordinates to get which emoji was selected. The issues with this could be copyright and then when new emojis come out I will always have to update the image and if a user doesn't download the new image they will still have the old emojis and won't be able to view the new ones.
So is there another way of doing this to allow ios emojis to be sent to android and vice versa?
Your custom approach could work. Just add another layer of abstraction -- download the emoji from a central server. Cache it locally. Periodically check to see if there is a new version, and download it. Because it'll remain really simple, old versions of the app will still be able to download and use new emoji whenever you update it.
That is a technical solution to your problem that'll support both platforms. Any copyright concerns are kind of off topic, and very specific to the set of emoji you end up deciding to use.
A large set of emoji have been added to the Unicode standard. So, they're basically just characters you could show with a font. For modern devices, a default font (with new OpenType color support) will be used to show emoji. For older devices, you could simply create your own font or use open source emoji designs and show them in old school black 'n white.
I search smilies / emoticons for my Android App.
I found that there are some open source sets available like used by pidgin.
But I was wondering about the emoticons used in Whatsapp.
They are basically very nice. Thus I thought that they are licensed by whatsapp.
Now I have installed the messanger "telegram" and I was suprised. They are using the same emoticons than in whatsapp. How can this work out?
Are the emoticons publicly available?
Both Whatsapp and Telegram (and a lot of other messenger apps, browsers and operating systems) use the Emoji sets.
The different types of Emoji are a result of different fonts for emoticons; they have a different appearance depending on the "font" used but the base is always a unicode set of characters.
Both Whatsapp and Telegram use the Apple implementation apparently, as Ivo's link specifies. Also see this github for more licensing info.
I don't think they are actual of Whatsapp put part of an actual Font.
I don't know if anyone can see it but for example on this wikipage I can see all emoticons like they are on whatsapp, and they are actual symbols in unicode and not images.
EDIT: I can only see them on my iMac (Apple)
This website says they are actual licensed by Apple if I understand correctly (note 2)
WhatsApp and Telegram both use a font that has been made by Apple. Apple doesn't license this font, so what they are doing is actually illegal, although Apple apparently doesn't care.