How to programmatically hide/disable emoticons on Android soft keyboard

Question

Is it possible to hide a specific keyboard button? I have an EditText and on some devices its keyboard has smiley faces while on other devices it is missing. I

Answer 1

From Petr Daña in a similar question... This enables autocomplete and disables all the smileys.

InputFilter filter = new InputFilter() {
@Override
public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
    for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
        int type = Character.getType(source.charAt(i));
        //System.out.println("Type : " + type);
        if (type == Character.SURROGATE || type == Character.OTHER_SYMBOL) {
            return "";
        }
    }
    return null;
    }
};

mMessageEditText.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{filter});

Refer to "How to detect emoticons in EditText in android".