How to disable emoji from being entered in Android EditText?

Question

Most implementations of the text inputType (other than URI, password, etc.) for EditText and TextView allow Emoji - although in most Google keyboard configurations this button is hidden. Is there a way to disable Emoji from being entered in an EditText? Is there an inputType parameter that could be paired with textMultiLine that would disable Emoji?

Answer 1

Modify build.gradle file, add XEditText to your project:

dependencies{
    compile 'com.xw.repo:xedittext:2.0.0@aar'
}

after that, in your layout.xml:

<com.xw.repo.XEditText
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:x_disableEmoji="true"/>

Or:

Customize EditText like this:

public class CustomEditText extends EditText {
    public CustomEditText(Context context) {
        super(context);
        init();
    }

    public CustomEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        init();
    }

    public CustomEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
        init();
    }

    private void init() {
        setFilters(new InputFilter[]{new EmojiExcludeFilter()});
    }

    private class EmojiExcludeFilter implements InputFilter {

        @Override
        public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
            for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
                int type = Character.getType(source.charAt(i));
                if (type == Character.SURROGATE || type == Character.OTHER_SYMBOL) {
                    return "";
                }
            }
            return null;
        }
    }
}

Both will work well !

Answer 2

There is tricky way for disabling emoji from keyboard..

you just have to set

android:inputType="textEmailAddress"

for EditText..

  <EditText
    android:id="@+id/edt_note"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="@string/note"
    android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
    android:padding="10dp"
    android:textColor="@color/white" />

I am not sure that it will work in all cases but in my case it worked for me...

Answer 3

There is value digits available in xml file for EditText. You can set there all acceptable chars.

<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:digits="qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm 1234567890 QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM" />

I know, it's not the best solution but works :)

Answer 4

Add this emoji filter class:

public class EmojiFilter {
    public static InputFilter[] getFilter()
    {
         InputFilter EMOJI_FILTER = new InputFilter() {

            @Override
            public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
                for (int index = start; index < end; index++) {

                    int type = Character.getType(source.charAt(index));

                    if (type == Character.SURROGATE || type==Character.NON_SPACING_MARK
                            || type==Character.OTHER_SYMBOL) {
                        return "";
                    }
                }
                return null;
            }
        };
         return new InputFilter[]{EMOJI_FILTER};
    }
}

And to disable emoji in edit text, do this:

editText.setFilters(EmojiFilter.getFilter());

There were some emoji which were able to type so i added:

type==Character.NON_SPACING_MARK || type==Character.OTHER_SYMBOL

in the if condition.