How to set unicode in textview to show emoji in android?

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I am getting some Unicode string(emoji icons) from server in json string format.

My problem is strange and I am trying for last two days to resolve this issue. When I parse json and store all the Unicode string in an ArrayList<String> and try to set the text on TextView by getting value from the same ArrayList then it shows Unicode characters as :

Ghcghchgc\ud83d\ude03\ud83d\ude03fyju\ud83d\ude0c6\u20e3

and when the same string I set on textview by passing static value as : textview.settext("Ghcghchgc\ud83d\ude03\ud83d\ude03fyju\ud83d\ude0c6\u20e3")

then the textview is showing perfect emojis.

I am stuck at this point. Can anybody please help me to resolve this issue or tell me if I am doing something wrong.

try this new String("your text","UTF-8"); – mmlooloo Aug 05 '14 at 11:09 — mmlooloo, Aug 05 '14 at 11:09

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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This sounds like you want to unescape your string that you've got from JSON. If you don't mind adding a library, Apache Commons has a String.unescapeJava function which does what you need. If you don't want to add that library, see this answer.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:31

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answered Aug 05 '14 at 11:20

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i also use this but when i get respone again from server enojis become `?` symbol. – Hasmukh Kachhatiya Sep 28 '17 at 10:05
@Hasmukhkachhatiya That means that your system does not have the proper Glyph for the symbol (i.e. the code point is not known) [read the description](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitute_character) – Bonatti Sep 13 '18 at 13:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 31 '20 at 15:16

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This is what has worked for me ( Kotlin version ):

textView.text = String(Character.toChars(0x1F389))

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answered Jun 12 '20 at 04:04

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How to set unicode in textview to show emoji in android?

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