Emoji

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Emoji Version 1.2.0

Version 1.2.0

December 17, 2025

androidx.emoji:emoji:1.2.0, androidx.emoji:emoji-appcompat:1.2.0, and androidx.emoji:emoji-bundled:1.2.0 are released. Version 1.2.0 contains these commits.

Important changes since 1.1.0:

• Moved to using jspecify nullability annotations
• minSdk moved to API 23
• Added GlyphChecker to support checking which emojis are supported by the system.

Version 1.2.0-rc01

December 03, 2025

androidx.emoji:emoji:1.2.0-rc01, androidx.emoji:emoji-appcompat:1.2.0-rc01, and androidx.emoji:emoji-bundled:1.2.0-rc01 are released. Version 1.2.0-rc01 contains these commits.

Version 1.2.0-beta01

November 19, 2025

androidx.emoji:emoji:1.2.0-beta01, androidx.emoji:emoji-appcompat:1.2.0-beta01, and androidx.emoji:emoji-bundled:1.2.0-beta01 are released. Version 1.2.0-beta01 contains these commits.

API Changes

• EmojiMetadata typeface specified as non null. (Ic727f, b/236341259)
• EmojiCompat correctly sets EditorInfo.extras on Android R (I1ea9b, b/196452690)
• Custom widgets that use IME not subclassing EditText may call EmojiCompat.updateEditorInfo to inform IME that they support EmojiCompat processing. (I1ea9b, b/196452690)

Bug Fixes

• Moving the default minSdk from API 21 to API 23 (Ibdfca, b/380448311, b/435705964, b/435705223)
• This library now uses JSpecify nullness annotations, which are type-use. Kotlin developers should use the following compiler arguments to enforce correct usage: -Xjspecify-annotations=strict, -Xtype-enhancement-improvements-strict-mode (Ibb74c, b/326456246)
• EmojiCompat init callbacks will now use the handler from each view, respecting views not on the main thread. (Iccbcf, b/278897602)

Version 1.2.0-alpha03

January 27, 2021

androidx.emoji:emoji:1.2.0-alpha03, androidx.emoji:emoji-appcompat:1.2.0-alpha03, and androidx.emoji:emoji-bundled:1.2.0-alpha03 are released. Version 1.2.0-alpha03 contains these commits.

New Features

• Emoji v13.1 emoji are added to bundled configuration.

API Changes

• Added new API EmojiCompat.Config#setGlyphChecker that enables developers to provide custom emoji glyph check behavior. (Ibc95e, b/170587912)

Version 1.2.0-alpha01

August 19, 2020

androidx.emoji:emoji:1.2.0-alpha01, androidx.emoji:emoji-appcompat:1.2.0-alpha01, and androidx.emoji:emoji-bundled:1.2.0-alpha01 are released. Version 1.2.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

New Features

• Emoji v13.0 emoji are added to bundled configuration.

1.1.0

Version 1.1.0

June 24, 2020

androidx.emoji:emoji:1.1.0, androidx.emoji:emoji-appcompat:1.1.0, and androidx.emoji:emoji-bundled:1.1.0 are released. Version 1.1.0 contains these commits.

Major changes since 1.0.0

• Emoji 12 and Emoji 12.1 have been added to the bundled EmojiCompat font.

Version 1.1.0-rc01

April 29, 2020

androidx.emoji:emoji:1.1.0-rc01, androidx.emoji:emoji-appcompat:1.1.0-rc01, and androidx.emoji:emoji-bundled:1.1.0-rc01 are released with no changes since 1.1.0-beta01. Version 1.1.0-rc01 contains these commits.

Version 1.1.0-beta01

April 1, 2020

androidx.emoji:emoji:1.1.0-beta01, androidx.emoji:emoji-appcompat:1.1.0-beta01, and androidx.emoji:emoji-bundled:1.1.0-beta01 are released with no changes since 1.1.0-alpha01. Version 1.1.0-beta01 contains these commits.

Version 1.1.0-alpha01

February 5, 2020

androidx.emoji:emoji:1.1.0-alpha01, androidx.emoji:emoji-appcompat:1.1.0-alpha01, and androidx.emoji:emoji-bundled:1.1.0-alpha01 are released. Version 1.1.0-alpha01 contains these commits in source and these commits for Emoji 12 and 12.1.

New features

• Emoji 12 and Emoji 12.1 are added to the bundled EmojiCompat font.