How to can i add emoji in text using emoji library?

Question

I want to add an emoji to a predefined text view. User no need to change that. How can i achieve this

"Hi there 😀!"

in TextView

in Android using emoji library ? Do i need to use emoji library ?

Answer 1

You don't need a library for this.

Method 1

Suppose you have a textview, then try this

textView.setText(new String(Character.toChars(0x1F60A)));

where 0x1F60A is the unicode for your smiley

Alternate Method

add this resource in strings.xml

<string name="smiley_text">&#x1F60A;</string>

then add it to textview like below

textview.setText(R.string.smiley_text);