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deltachat / deltachat-android

Email-based instant messaging for Android.
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diversify emojis #1264

Closed cyBerta closed 4 years ago

cyBerta commented 4 years ago

Currently DC android supports only standard yellowish emojis whereas DC Desktop and iOS support emojis with different skin colors. We should adapt that on Android as well, in order to avoid the loss of content while messaging between the different platforms. I'm pretty sure, we can borrow some code from signal for an fast and easy solution.

r10s commented 4 years ago

wondering if this already works with the system-emojis enabled, at least on recent android versions. i so, we could think about using them as default.

link2xt commented 4 years ago

At least the keyboard can be copied from signal. They have added interface to choose skin color for some emojis since we forked it.

missytake commented 4 years ago

Which emoji set do we ship currently?

Twitter has an open source emoji set. They have skin colors, nonbinary emojis, and even the black flag ;) https://emojipedia.org/twitter/

The repository is here: https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/ the code is MIT-licensed, the graphics are CC BY 4.0.

cyBerta commented 4 years ago

wow those are really cool, +1

TrickTrackNO commented 4 years ago

Unicode Emojies seems like a good plan. Is the purpose of OP alternative rendering to OS?

r10s commented 4 years ago

what do you mean by "Unicode Emojies"? aren't all emojis unicode?

Simon-Laux commented 4 years ago

I think unicode emojis in the context means render emojis as unicode text and not as images.