Custom Emoji Keyboard In Android With Images

I want to create my own emoji keyboard in android. User should be able to select this keyboard as an input method for his android phone. I tried creating it and I am able to use it

Solution 1:

The best implementation for an emoji keyboard I found was that of sliding emoji-Keyboard It's a really good implementation, maybe with some redundant code, but still really good for understanding how to implement keyboards that do not fit the normal "button-to-text" keyboards.

UPDATE

Okay, I have now been able to successfully able to integrate the sliding emoji-keyboard into my own project 8Vim after a lot of re-factoring in both of the projects.

Essentially, all you are doing for the emoji keyboard is to create a view of the size of the keyboard and then populating that view with PNG files corresponding to the emoji's. each image acts like a button and delivers the appropriate emoji to the inputConnection.

UPDATE 2

I have extended the sliding emoji-keyboard and created a much cleaner version that should be easier to understand. Take a look at my emoji-keyboard