The missing emoji library for java.
emoji-java is a lightweight java library that helps you use Emojis in your java applications.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vdurmont</groupId>
<artifactId>emoji-java</artifactId>
<version>5.1.1</version>
</dependency>
You can also download the project, build it with mvn clean install
and add the generated jar to your buildpath.
compile 'com.vdurmont:emoji-java:5.1.1'
- Use releases tab to download the jar directly.
- Download JSON-java dependency from http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.json/json.
The EmojiManager
provides several static methods to search through the emojis database:
getForTag
returns all the emojis for a given taggetForAlias
returns the emoji for an aliasgetAll
returns all the emojisisEmoji
checks if a string is an emojicontainsEmoji
checks if a string contains any emoji
You can also query the metadata:
getAllTags
returns the available tags
Or get everything:
getAll
returns all the emojis
An Emoji
is a POJO (plain old java object), which provides the following methods:
getUnicode
returns the unicode representation of the emojigetUnicode(Fitzpatrick)
returns the unicode representation of the emoji with the provided Fitzpatrick modifier. If the emoji doesn't support the Fitzpatrick modifiers, this method will throw anUnsupportedOperationException
. If the provided Fitzpatrick is null, this method will return the unicode of the emoji.getDescription
returns the (optional) description of the emojigetAliases
returns a list of aliases for this emojigetTags
returns a list of tags for this emojigetHtmlDecimal
returns an html decimal representation of the emojigetHtmlHexadecimal
returns an html decimal representation of the emojisupportsFitzpatrick
returns true if the emoji supports the Fitzpatrick modifiers, else false
Some emojis now support the use of Fitzpatrick modifiers that gives the choice between 5 shades of skin tones:
Modifier | Type |
---|---|
🏻 | type_1_2 |
🏼 | type_3 |
🏽 | type_4 |
🏾 | type_5 |
🏿 | type_6 |
We defined the format of the aliases including a Fitzpatrick modifier as:
:ALIAS|TYPE:
A few examples:
:boy|type_1_2:
:swimmer|type_4:
:santa|type_6:
To replace all the aliases and the html representations found in a string by their unicode, use EmojiParser#parseToUnicode(String)
.
For example:
String str = "An :grinning:awesome :smiley:string 😄with a few :wink:emojis!";
String result = EmojiParser.parseToUnicode(str);
System.out.println(result);
// Prints:
// "An 😀awesome 😃string 😄with a few 😉emojis!"
To replace all the emoji's unicodes found in a string by their aliases, use EmojiParser#parseToAliases(String)
.
For example:
String str = "An 😀awesome 😃string with a few 😉emojis!";
String result = EmojiParser.parseToAliases(str);
System.out.println(result);
// Prints:
// "An :grinning:awesome :smiley:string with a few :wink:emojis!"
By default, the aliases will parse and include any Fitzpatrick modifier that would be provided. If you want to remove or ignore the Fitzpatrick modifiers, use EmojiParser#parseToAliases(String, FitzpatrickAction)
. Examples:
String str = "Here is a boy: \uD83D\uDC66\uD83C\uDFFF!";
System.out.println(EmojiParser.parseToAliases(str));
System.out.println(EmojiParser.parseToAliases(str, FitzpatrickAction.PARSE));
// Prints twice: "Here is a boy: :boy|type_6:!"
System.out.println(EmojiParser.parseToAliases(str, FitzpatrickAction.REMOVE));
// Prints: "Here is a boy: :boy:!"
System.out.println(EmojiParser.parseToAliases(str, FitzpatrickAction.IGNORE));
// Prints: "Here is a boy: :boy:🏿!"
To replace all the emoji's unicodes found in a string by their html representation, use EmojiParser#parseToHtmlDecimal(String)
or EmojiParser#parseToHtmlHexadecimal(String)
.
For example:
String str = "An 😀awesome 😃string with a few 😉emojis!";
String resultDecimal = EmojiParser.parseToHtmlDecimal(str);
System.out.println(resultDecimal);
// Prints:
// "An 😀awesome 😃string with a few 😉emojis!"
String resultHexadecimal = EmojiParser.parseToHtmlHexadecimal(str);
System.out.println(resultHexadecimal);
// Prints:
// "An 😀awesome 😃string with a few 😉emojis!"
By default, any Fitzpatrick modifier will be removed. If you want to ignore the Fitzpatrick modifiers, use EmojiParser#parseToAliases(String, FitzpatrickAction)
. Examples:
String str = "Here is a boy: \uD83D\uDC66\uD83C\uDFFF!";
System.out.println(EmojiParser.parseToHtmlDecimal(str));
System.out.println(EmojiParser.parseToHtmlDecimal(str, FitzpatrickAction.PARSE));
System.out.println(EmojiParser.parseToHtmlDecimal(str, FitzpatrickAction.REMOVE));
// Print 3 times: "Here is a boy: 👦!"
System.out.println(EmojiParser.parseToHtmlDecimal(str, FitzpatrickAction.IGNORE));
// Prints: "Here is a boy: 👦🏿!"
The same applies for the methods EmojiParser#parseToHtmlHexadecimal(String)
and EmojiParser#parseToHtmlHexadecimal(String, FitzpatrickAction)
.
You can easily remove emojis from a string using one of the following methods:
EmojiParser#removeAllEmojis(String)
: removes all the emojis from the StringEmojiParser#removeAllEmojisExcept(String, Collection<Emoji>)
: removes all the emojis from the String, except the ones in the CollectionEmojiParser#removeEmojis(String, Collection<Emoji>)
: removes the emojis in the Collection from the String
For example:
String str = "An 😀awesome 😃string with a few 😉emojis!";
Collection<Emoji> collection = new ArrayList<Emoji>();
collection.add(EmojiManager.getForAlias("wink")); // This is 😉
System.out.println(EmojiParser.removeAllEmojis(str));
System.out.println(EmojiParser.removeAllEmojisExcept(str, collection));
System.out.println(EmojiParser.removeEmojis(str, collection));
// Prints:
// "An awesome string with a few emojis!"
// "An awesome string with a few 😉emojis!"
// "An 😀awesome 😃string with a few emojis!"
You can search a string of mixed emoji/non-emoji characters and have all of the emoji characters returned as a Collection.
EmojiParser#extractEmojis(String)
: returns all emojis as a Collection. This will include duplicates if emojis are present more than once.
emoji-java originally used the data provided by the github/gemoji project. It is still based on it but has evolved since.
See a table of the available emojis and their aliases HERE.