How to send emoji in intent to whatsapp?

Question

I know that we can send plain text to whatsapp through an intent like :

 Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
 sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
 sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,"Text to be sent on whatsapp");
 sendIntent.setType("text/plain");
 sendIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
 startActivity(sendIntent);

But I want to be able to send emojis (emoticons) to whatsapp through an intent.
How is it possible? Do we have some special codes for the emojis?

Bookseller

You can check here.how to do this... – Driver

I want to be able to send emojis to the whatsapp through intent. This link you shared doesn't help. – Bookseller

Answer 1

I used StringBuilder for this like:

int unicode = 0x1F600
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
s.append("YOUR MESSAGE HERE");
s.append(Character.toChars(unicode));

The resulting string will be something like this

YOUR MESSAGE HERE😀

Copy the unicode from here But remember to change the code that you will copy from this webpage from U-1F600 to 0x1F600.

U-1F600 is the unicode but android doesn't recognizes this. 0x1F600 is the hexcode for android.

Qualifier

Answer 2

Use this instead of using StringBuilder

 // send message with emojis
       int waveEmojiUnicode = 0x1F44B,
           clapEmojiUnicode = 0x1F44F,
           faceTongueEmojiUnicode = 0x1F60B;
        
            char[] waveEmojiChars = Character.toChars(waveEmojiUnicode);
            char[] clapEmojiChars = Character.toChars(clapEmojiUnicode);
            char[] faceTongueEmojiChars = Character.toChars(faceTongueEmojiUnicode);
        
            String s1 = "Hi Noah ", s2 = ", TimeLY is a nice app ", s3 = ". However, I would like" + " to report a bug [ ... ]. My name is [ ... ] by the way.";
        
            String message = s1 + String.valueOf(waveEmojiChars) + s2 + String.valueOf(clapEmojiChars) + s3 + String.valueOf(faceTongueEmojiChars);

     Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
     sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
     sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, message);
     sendIntent.setType("text/plain");
     sendIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
     startActivity(sendIntent);

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