Emoji suggestion

Feature description:

The user should get a suggestion of emojis after typing a special character followed by a word that matches the emoji he wants suggested.

Example:

User types :cat The suggestion bar shows 😺😸😹😻🐈…etc

Here are three screenshots as an example: The first screenshot is taken from the Element app, it uses many keywords for each emoji.

The second screenshot is taken from the Discord app, it uses a single word or a sequence separated by - as a keyword for each emoji.

The third screenshot is taken while using AnySoftKeyboard.

[patrickgold]

Thanks @tsiflimagas for linking the resource! In the last couple days I actually build my own emoji library for FlorisBoard, which produces an emoji mapping file with a name and multiple keywords for each emoji directly from the official Unicode CLDR repo (Common Locale Data Repository): https://github.com/florisboard/emojicon

The problem is that I cannot pack the generated emoji names and keywords for each language into the APK, which would be ~50MB extra. In this case even compressing doesn’t help, I need to look into making this modular. As soon as I have figured this part out I can add emoji suggestions with no problem. Emoji suggestions weren’t planned though for the preference rework, so it will probably have to wait until after word suggestions (or I could include only English for now, which would be ~250kB)

[patrickgold]

Thanks for your proposal. This is a really cool idea and I’ll definitely look at it when reworking the whole media feature stack!