Show Custom emoticon in Android Keyboard

Question

I have been trying for the last 3 days to show a graphical custom emoticon in the default android message view. I have successfully shown my custom emoticons in place of keys. Now the problem is that I am trying to show a drawable in spanable string builder. But the drawable just does not appear on the keyboard. Here is the code so far:

     SpannableString ss = new SpannableString(" "); 
                    Drawable d = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.a); 
                    d.setBounds(0, 0, d.getIntrinsicWidth(), d.getIntrinsicHeight()); 
//                  ImageSpan span = new ImageSpan(d, ImageSpan.ALIGN_BASELINE); 
                    ImageSpan span = new ImageSpan(d);
//                  ss.setSpan(span, 0, 1, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

                    mComposing.append(":");
                    mComposing.setSpan(new ImageSpan(d), 0,1, Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
                    getCurrentInputConnection().commitText(mComposing, 1);

I have tried different methods to somehow fit the drawable but it just wont show on the default message view of android. Any help would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

May be this will be helpful: Emoticons-Keyboard

See this also: Implementations of Emoji (Emoticon) View/Keyboard Layouts