Android Keyboard with Emoji

Question

So I want to have a keyboard in my app that has emoji just like Whatsapp or Hangouts. How can I do that? I want to leave my key keyboard as it is I just want to add tabs to

Answer 1

As @dbar pointed out, the answer is:

android:inputType="textShortMessage"

But in my case, I was already using textMultiLine, so I had to use the both of them together:

android:inputType="textMultiLine|textShortMessage"

Looks like this:

I'm not sure about the Exact android version, but this should work only on Android 4.1 and above