How to list (almost) all emojis in Swift for iOS 8 without using any form of lookup tables?

Question

I\'m playing around with emojis in Swift using Xcode playground for some simple iOS8 apps. For this, I want to create something similar to a unicode/emoji map/description.

Answer 1

You can loop over those hex values with a Range: 0x1F601...0x1F64F and then create the Strings using a UnicodeScalar:

for i in 0x1F601...0x1F64F {
    var c = String(UnicodeScalar(i))
    print(c)
}

Outputs: