Emojis 😛 are amazing way to express our feeling and deliver our thoughts that people with deferent languages can understand it even children’s can understand it. Any popular social network application provide you a set of Emojis. Take a look at your last messages to see how much you are using them. It’s very important to have them in your applications. Android OS can render Emojis on Text fields.
This article explains how to integrate emojis keyboard into your app easily with many customization options using SuperNova-Emoji library.
1. Simple Integration
Below is the syntax of a simple integration for Emojis Keyboard. The EmojiIconActions constructer accept four parameters, Context, RootView, EmojiconEditText, and ImageView. Usually passing the parent layout as RootView is the best option to show the Emojis Keyboard above all views. The EmojiconEditText is a EditText with more custom attributes to enable emojis rendering. And the last parameter the ImageView will used to switch between the normal keyboard and the emojis keyboard.
To display emojis in TextView we will use EmojiconTextView which is also a TextView with more custom attributes to enable emojis rendering
EmojIconActions emojIcon= new EmojIconActions(this, rootView, emojiconEditText, emojiImageView); emojIcon.ShowEmojIcon();
If you want to use it in xml layout, we will use EmojiconEditText instead of the normal EditText.
<hani.momanii.supernova_emoji_library.Helper.EmojiconEditText android:id="@+id/emojicon_edit_text" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" emojicon:emojiconSize="28sp" />
And EmojiconTextView instead of TextView
<hani.momanii.supernova_emoji_library.Helper.EmojiconTextView android:id="@+id/emojicon_text_view" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" emojicon:emojiconSize="28sp"/>
2. Change the default Toggle Icon
For switching between normal keyboard and emojis keyboard, you can call setIconsIds() method which takes two parameters, keyboard Icon ID and smiley Icon ID.
emojIcon.setIconsIds(R.drawable.ic_action_keyboard,R.drawable.smiley);
3. Using device default Emojis
SuperNove-Emoji allow you to use device emojis ins simple way, you need to set the boolean value of setUseSystemEmoji() and setUseSystemDefault() methods to TRUE in every EmojiconTextView and EmojiconEditText you use to display the emojis.
emojIcon.setUseSystemEmoji(true); textView.setUseSystemDefault(true); emojiconEditText.setUseSystemDefault(true);
Xml attribute:
emojicon:emojiconUseSystemDefault="true"
4. Changing Emojis Size
In order to change Emojis size, you have to change the text size by setting the value of setEmojiconSize() method.
textView.setEmojiconSize(30);
XML code
emojicon:emojiconSize="28sp"
5. Detect When the Keyboard Opened or closed
SuperNova-Emoji let you detect when the user open the keyboard or close it to take some actions if needed like show some views when the keyboard open and hide it when the keyboard closed. Use the below code block to achieve this.
emojIcon.setKeyboardListener(new EmojIconActions.KeyboardListener() { @Override public void onKeyboardOpen() { Log.i("Keyboard","open"); } @Override public void onKeyboardClose() { Log.i("Keyboard","close"); } });
6. Changing the Emoji Keyboard colors to match your app theme
You can set three colors to the emojis keyboard by adding three parameters to the constructer which they are pressed tabs icons color, tabs color, and background color. We will use the same above constructer with the colors value.
EmojIconActions emojIcon= new EmojIconActions(this, rootView, emojiconEditText, emojiImageView, "#F44336","#e8e8e8","#f4f4f4"); emojIcon.ShowEmojIcon();
7. Creating Sample App
Now we’ll create a simple app integrating the emojis to get a good understanding of it in a real app.
1. In Android Studio, go to File ⇒ New Project and fill all the details required to create a new project.
2. Open build.gradle and add supernova emoji library. You need to add its maven repository too.
repositories { maven { url "https://dl.bintray.com/hani-momanii/maven"} } dependencies { . . . // Supernova Emoji compile 'hani.momanii.supernova_emoji_library:supernova-emoji-library:0.0.2' }
3. Open the layout file your main activity activity_main.xml and add below code. Here you can see that I have added the emojiconEditText, emojiconTextView and the ImageView.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:emojicon="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:id="@+id/root_view" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context="info.androidhive.emojis.MainActivity"> <ImageView android:id="@+id/emoji_btn" android:layout_width="40dp" android:layout_height="40dp" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:padding="4dp" android:src="@drawable/ic_insert_emoticon_black_24dp" /> <ImageView android:id="@+id/submit_btn" android:layout_width="40dp" android:layout_height="40dp" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" android:layout_alignParentRight="true" android:padding="4dp" android:src="@android:drawable/ic_menu_send" /> <hani.momanii.supernova_emoji_library.Helper.EmojiconEditText android:id="@+id/emojicon_edit_text" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/submit_btn" android:layout_toRightOf="@id/emoji_btn" emojicon:emojiconSize="28sp" /> <CheckBox android:id="@+id/use_system_default" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_below="@+id/textView" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" android:checked="false" android:text="Use System Default?" /> <hani.momanii.supernova_emoji_library.Helper.EmojiconTextView android:id="@+id/textView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" android:layout_centerVertical="true" android:layout_marginTop="26dp" android:text="Hello Emojis!" android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Large" android:textColor="#000000" emojicon:emojiconSize="45sp" emojicon:emojiconUseSystemDefault="true" /> </RelativeLayout>
4. Now open MainActivity.java and make the changes as mentioned below. This activity show the different scenarios of implementing the SuperNova-Emoji as explained above.
package info.androidhive.emojis; import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; import android.util.Log; import android.view.View; import android.widget.CheckBox; import android.widget.CompoundButton; import android.widget.ImageView; import hani.momanii.supernova_emoji_library.Actions.EmojIconActions; import hani.momanii.supernova_emoji_library.Helper.EmojiconEditText; import hani.momanii.supernova_emoji_library.Helper.EmojiconTextView; public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { private static final String TAG = MainActivity.class.getSimpleName(); CheckBox mCheckBox; EmojiconEditText emojiconEditText; EmojiconTextView textView; ImageView emojiImageView; ImageView submitButton; View rootView; EmojIconActions emojIcon; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); rootView = findViewById(R.id.root_view); emojiImageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.emoji_btn); submitButton = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.submit_btn); mCheckBox = (CheckBox) findViewById(R.id.use_system_default); emojiconEditText = (EmojiconEditText) findViewById(R.id.emojicon_edit_text); textView = (EmojiconTextView) findViewById(R.id.textView); emojIcon = new EmojIconActions(this, rootView, emojiconEditText, emojiImageView); emojIcon.ShowEmojIcon(); emojIcon.setIconsIds(R.drawable.ic_action_keyboard, R.drawable.smiley); emojIcon.setKeyboardListener(new EmojIconActions.KeyboardListener() { @Override public void onKeyboardOpen() { Log.e(TAG, "Keyboard opened!"); } @Override public void onKeyboardClose() { Log.e(TAG, "Keyboard closed"); } }); mCheckBox.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener() { @Override public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton compoundButton, boolean b) { emojIcon.setUseSystemEmoji(b); textView.setUseSystemDefault(b); } }); submitButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { String newText = emojiconEditText.getText().toString(); textView.setText(newText); } }); } }
Run And test the app.
Hani is passionate about coding, Android Development, contributing to Opensource communities and actively competing in hackathons. focusing on making Android Developer life easier.
good start hani , nice tutorial
Very useful! Keep up the good work!
Mast
Good article Hani.
Great work bro……………
pretty solid post man!
nice post..very helpful..
Hey Ravi, thanks for sharing this tutorial. I have one doubt related to Service. that is when my app closes my background service runs but when i removed it from my task manager then the background Service also Stops.So if i want to start that service then what i do for that. Because my push notification are also not receives with this kind of issue, Please Kindly help. 🙂
sir great tutorial, sir please tell me how i add extra emoji which i make i want to add extra emoji in emoji keyboard how i add please reply sooner
Hello Sir,I make this app emojis-keyboard-app but my emoji icons are not displayed when i press the emoji button and check the checkbox.
If you have any solution of my problem then please tel me.
And thanking you for this tutorial.
Hii sirr i want open this emoji keyboard in a dialog on click of button and on click of any emoji form dialog i want to display that over a image view or any layout how to do this please help me sir………
very nice tutorial. Its very helpful. But I have one doubt if I enter any emoji icon in edittext how can I get the unicode of the emoji ? Pls guide me.
Hello Rahman,
Have you got any clue to get unicode for the emoji ?
sir, it’s good but i want to create my own emoji keyboard pls help me how to do it. Without using any other emoji keyboard library
Simple ,
Take any library modify it as per your requirement
It’s not working on DialogFragment.
use rootview as your activity xml file rootview
Can we add this code to our costom keyboard?
inputtext=”textShortMessage”
Did you ever make a keyboard with this? ???
fail to resolve ‘hani.momanii.supernova_emoji_library:supernova-emoji-library:0.0.2’
please help
You can user the lastest version
compile ‘com.github.hani-momanii:SuperNova-Emoji:1.1’
questions in:
https://github.com/hani-momanii/SuperNova-Emoji/issues/15
Error is still..
Error:(29, 13) Failed to resolve: com.github.hani-momanii:SuperNova-Emoji:1.1
Show in FileShow in Project Structure dialog
Attempt to invoke virtual method ‘android.view.ViewTreeObserver android.view.View.getViewTreeObserver()’ on a null object reference
at hani.momanii.supernova_emoji_library.Helper.EmojiconsPopup.setSizeForSoftKeyboard
i have done qwerty keyboard and emoji keyboard and integrate done also but it doesn’t load on simulator please tell me what should i do for this?
I have been following your post for years now.. AndroidHive, you guys are doing a great job, although at previous times, I had issues with getting your tutorials workable but recently it has been a PLUS… Thanks
Thanks for being a good follower of androidhive 🙂
absolutely
hello..this is indeed a great article..but the a icon in the 4th tab is showing a code instead of the icon as
Can you please sort this issue..Thanks in advance.
Hey did you make this into a system wide keyboard! ?
hello .please teach emoji keyboard without ” emojiconEditText ” .so we can add it to our custom keyboard .
If I want to save the emoji in the database as it would be
Thank u Man
dependency not sync in my project. do you have any solution plz do comments
Please how can i implement this usinge eclipse ide?
Still using Eclipse?
first of all come out from eclipse bro, install android studio for better development 🙂
Hey has anyone made this into a system wide keyboard!! ??
I like the look of gboard but not the way they show the emojis I love the way WhatsApp shows them and this looks a lot like it so I’m hoping someone has made one ??

????
Failed to resolve: compile ‘com.github.hani-momanii:SuperNova-Emoji:0.0.2’
Failed to resolve: compile ‘com.github.hani-momanii:SuperNova-Emoji:1.1’
how to handle this issue??
Have you added jitpack maven url to build.gradle?
repositories {
maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}
Thanks allot. And specially thanks Hani Sir.
how can i add further emojis in this keyboard and what about defining logic of unicode
can i integrate with huawei keyboard ?
ravi,unable to compile due to not resolve symbol hani
plz guide me for same………..
Hey Ravi, thanks for sharing this tutorial, But foods icons (Strawbery,Banana) show opposite direction
Hi Hani ,
Thanks for sharing tutorial . I am facing this issue “Error: Program type already present: android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransitionCompat21$1” .
Please tell me how to resolve this issue .
emojIcon.setUseSystemEmoji(true);
If you use the above option, the Emoji keyboard will run first when you start the keyboard
Can I get my default keyboard to run first?
How can I use my own picture as emoji, I don’t mean sticker, I mean emoji, my picture would be small and tiny like an emoji.
How can I do that?
i same problem with you. how i can use my own picture?
by using this library my app size got increased 6 Mb more after removing this library it got reduced the size so without increasing size of the app is there any other choice to use emoji in keyboard
there are lot of changes try to provide updated contents ,,,!!!
Hi,, Have you found the solution yet ?