Android Emoji 2021

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Android explains why emoji break: fonts ship with the OS so new Unicode additions (about 3500 emojis (API 31)) often render as tofu on older devices (about ~200 emojis (API 21/L)), meaning roughly 80% of new emoji can be missing. The fix uses Play Services font downloads plus Android 12’s Font Manager and the Jetpack EmojiCompat library (now EmojiCompat v1.4 integrated into AppCompat) to deliver updated emoji, patch rendering bugs (cursor/backspace) and fall back to app-side rendering; Compose support is underway.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:43Unicode Emoji Types
3. 8:18Android Emoji Fragmentation
4. 9:11Why Emoji Fragmentation Happens?
5. 11:04Emoji Evolution on Android
6. 11:54What happens if emoji is not supported?

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