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How to commit emojis using android IME

I am looking to add emojis using a soft keyboard i am experimenting with. I am aware the default keyboard in android allows entering Emojis.

However when i am trying to commit a string with an emoji it shows up a junk character on the edit text.

Is there some thing i am missing? I am doing the following to commit an emoji :

        getCurrentInputConnection().commitText(String.valueOf((char)58389),0);

Same is the case with the emoji keyboard here : https://github.com/zeuxisoo/android-emoji-keyboard

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Solution

  • I found the solution to this problem. The emojis are 32bit unicode characters. Hence one has to send 2 16bit characters to commitText to commit an emoji. Something like : 

    getCurrentInputConnection().commitText("\ud83d\ude01", 1)