ow Do You Integrate An Emoji Keyboard Into Your Apps?

Whether it be a social media platform or a messaging app, nowadays there’s countless emojis you can use when typing on these apps with status updates and messages. Therefore, it is necessary to integrate an emoji keyboard in your application. In this article, I have given you guidance on how to integrate an emoji keyboard into an Android app. Let's move to the point of integrating an emoji keyboard into the various apps on your phone.

Emojis are an amazing way to express our emotions and convey our thoughts so that people who use different languages can understand them, even children can understand emojis. Emoji’s undoubtedly make any app more interesting, easy to use, and fun to interact with people.

Today, emoji’s are the most popular feature in every messaging application. Don't you like putting emojis into your chats or story? They are the best way to show feelings or emotions in written communication. Everyone can understand the meaning of emojis, and you do not need to express your feelings in lengthy sentences. Adding an emoji keyboard is not a difficult coding task, with the help of custom options such as the SuperNova library. But if you’re using an iOS phone and want to personalize your phone, you can add a new keyboard in to your iOS phone, or iPad. The Kika Keyboard is the best iOS keyboard that you can install on all of your iOS devices. 

Follow the below methods to integrate emoji keyboards into your app easily with several customization options such as SuperNova library:

1. Simple Integration

Check the simple integrated syntax for Emoji Keyboard. Use EmojiIconActions constructor that accept four parameters, namely Context, RootView, EmojiconEditText, and ImageView.  RootView is the best option to pass the main layout in the constructor to display the Emoji Keyboard in the view. While EditText is a custom attribute that allows you to emojis rendering. In addition, ImageView allows you to set settings to switch between emoji keyboard and normal keyboard.

To display the emojis in TextView, you can use EmojiconTextView that offer access to more custom attributes for emoji rendering.

Syntax:

EmojIconActions emojIcon= new EmojiconActions(Context, rootView, emojiconEditText,
emojiImageView);
emojIcon.ShowEmojIcon()

Syntax for XML layout:

<xyz.supernova_emoji_library.Helper.EmojiconEditText

    android:id="@+id/emojicon_edit_text"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

    emojicon:emojiconSize="28sp" />

2. Create Default Toggle Icon

For switching between an emoji keyboard and normal keyboard, you can call setIconsIds() method that accepts two parameters, keyboard Icon ID and smiley Icon ID.

Syntax:

emojIcon.setIconsIds(R.drawable.ic_action_keyboard,R.drawable.smiley);

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3.  Check whether the keyboard is opened or closed

Using the SuperNova library, you can set the code to check that when the user open the keyboard or close it to take some actions like showing different views while the keyboard is open and hide when it is closed. Check the code that can be used to achieve this.

Syntax:

emojIcon.setKeyboardListener(new EmojIconActions.KeyboardListener() {

            @Override

            public void onKeyboardOpen() {

                Log.i("Keyboard","open");

            }

            @Override

            public void onKeyboardClose() {

                Log.i("Keyboard","close");

            }

        });

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4.  Change the Colour of Emoji Keyboard to Match Your App Theme

The custom option will allow you to change three colors to the emojis keyboard by adding three parameters to the EmojIconActions constructer which are tabs color, tabs color, and background color. We will use the same constructer to set the color value.

EmojIconActions emojIcon= new EmojIconActions(this, rView, emojiconEtxt, emojiImgView,
"#F44336","#e8e8e8","#f4f4f4");
emojIcon.ShowEmojIcon();

 5. Change Size of Emoji

Changing the size of emojis is a key feature that must be included in messenger.  To change the size of the emoji, please change the size of the text by setting the value of the setEmojiconSize() method.

Syntax:

textView.setEmojiconSize(30);

Conclusion:

Adding emoji keyboards to your messaging, gaming, or social media apps will motivate users to use the application again and again. In addition, adding stickers will also affect users' interests. You should focus on integrating features that can improve your app experience and attract more users. For iPhone users, that cant code their phones, they can just download the Kika Keyboard and have the same benefits.

About the author:

The author is an emoji Android keyboard app developer who has created Kika keyboard packed with thousands of emojis, emoticons, cool fonts, funny GIFs, smiley faces, stickers, and stylish keyboard themes.

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