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I use the grapheneOS keyboard and I use emojis.
It has some common emojis absent in it like 😏, 🥲, etc. which I use frequently.
So, for the missing emojis ,
in Vanadium I keep open a tab of https://emojicopy.com
and copy the emoji and paste it where I require.
Needless to say, the workflow is cumbersome.

If adding common emojis is not too much technical or will consume too much time,
May I suggest adding these common emojis (the entire UTF emoji specification) in the grapheneOS keyboard?

    miyeta21 changed the title to A small feature request for missing emojis in the GrapheneOS keyboard .

    router99 I know plenty of old people who use emojis. Emojis are used by tons of people these days, maybe even the majority of them do. I dislike them, but it's just how it is.

    miyeta21 unfortunately, the keyboard that GrapheneOS uses is not all that great. It's the AOSP keyboard and it gets very little maintenance. You can consider using a different keyboard. There are open source alternatives that are way better.

          miyeta21 I use the grapheneOS keyboard and I use emojis.
          It has some common emojis absent in it like 😏, 🥲, etc.

          Both those emojis are available for me on the GrapheneOS keyboard. I bring up the list of emojis by long pressing the return key, and those two emojis are both available there.

              mmmm sure kids can use GOS. There was no suggestion they couldn't. Just saying adults don't need them. Or shouldn't, anyway.

                  treequell

                  treequell Both those emojis are available for me on the GrapheneOS keyboard. I bring up the list of emojis by long pressing the return key, and those two emojis are both available there.

                  Yes, that is how I do it too, I bring up the list of emojis by long pressing the return key.
                  I can confirm this is present 😏 after carefully searching.

                  However, I cannot for the life of me find 🥲.
                  If this is not too much to ask, can you type the surrounding emojis, or tell me on which page (inside the emoji keyboard) it is present, or a screenshot of the keyboard with the page on which it is present.

                  It could be that I am blind. My apologies in advance.

                        miyeta21

                        I also use emojis regularly and initially thought about which keyboard I could also install.

                        In the end, I realized that I get along very well with the GrapheneOS keyboard as I mainly use emojis in messengers (e.g. Signal). Most messengers have their own emojis, which I then use - I personally like them a bit better than the standard keyboard emojis and there is a practical search field. Otherwise, I use the standard keyboard emojis.

                        What I haven't found a good solution for yet, however, is for sending GIFs...

                            treequell

                            miyeta21 I can confirm this is present 😏 after carefully searching.

                            However, I cannot for the life of me find 🥲.

                            treequell Both those emojis are available for me on the GrapheneOS keyboard.

                            Embarrassed by my missing out on 😏, I made a list of the common smileys that I could not find on the GrapheneOS keyboard:
                            🥹🤣🥲🥰🤪🤨🧐🥸🤩🥳☹️😣😫🥺🤬🤯🥵🥶😶‍🌫️🫣🤭🫢🫡🤫🫠🤥🫥🫤🫨😯🥱🤤😮‍💨😵‍💫🤐🥴🤢🤮🤧🤠

                            Disclaimer: I may still be blind and some may be present. If present in the keyboard, kindly do aid me in some form.

                            Personal note: I remember, I frequently used to use these, 🥹🤣🥲🥰🤪🤨🧐🥳🤬🤯😵‍💫🫤 before transitioning to GrapheneOS a year ago. Because of the absence from the keyboard, I slowly slowly forgot to use these. 😌

                            Murcielago

                            Murcielago I also use emojis regularly and initially thought about which keyboard I could also install.

                            In the end, I realized that I get along very well with the GrapheneOS keyboard as I mainly use emojis in messengers (e.g. Signal). Most messengers have their own emojis, which I then use - I personally like them a bit better than the standard keyboard emojis and there is a practical search field. Otherwise, I use the standard keyboard emojis.

                            What I haven't found a good solution for yet, however, is for sending GIFs...

                            True. I also do journal myself a lot (via self-hosted nextcloud notes) and hence the emoji requirement.
                            For GIFs, I think my workflow of visiting giphy (or something like that) in a tab is a work around; and I agree it is clumsy. Like the google keyboard, I would not mind a GIF tab, either.

                            I agree on everything you've said, partner. 😌

                                        miyeta21 However, I cannot for the life of me find 🥲.

                                        Ah, yes you're correct that it's not there, I was mixing up with 😅 which is my preferred one.

                                        router99 Just saying adults don't need them. Or shouldn't, anyway.

                                        Emojis are great for those of us who are still kids at heart 😜

                                              miyeta21 Cool, can I ask how you manage to send images from Giphy in Messenger as a GIF? When I try to either download them or share them from the browser, Messenger either sends no image at all or a static photo. Downloading I always get a .webp as the file type.

                                                  router99 you don’t want them. Others do 🤷 it is what it is and I don’t think you should concern yourself too much! It’s a fun way to add a specific point to a message or a personal note. If they’re there you can just ignore them. If they’re not there then the people that want them have no choice in that.

                                                    Murcielago

                                                    Murcielago Cool, can I ask how you manage to send images from Giphy in Messenger as a GIF? When I try to either download them or share them from the browser, Messenger either sends no image at all or a static photo. Downloading I always get a .webp as the file type.

                                                    I have not tried the method I described myself! 😅
                                                    Maybe this will help: https://support.giphy.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020071472-How-to-Text-a-GIF-

                                                          treequell

                                                          treequell Ah, yes you're correct that it's not there, I was mixing up with 😅 which is my preferred one.

                                                          Thank God, no more embarrassment for me! 😌

                                                          So mods, please inform the dev team,
                                                          that if adding the missing emojis is possible to kindly look into it.

                                                          Thanks again.

                                                                miyeta21
                                                                Unfortunately, this method requires the GIPHY app to be installed.

                                                                I don't want to crush the discussion, as this is about emojis - but I've just been playing around with GIPHY again, found the solution and wanted to share it briefly:

                                                                Go to website > search GIF > tap on desired GIF > press send button > tap & hold on image > then you can download the GIF or share directly from the Android dialog.

                                                                A bit cumbersome, but I'm actually quite happy with the GrapheneOS default keyboard and can use this little workaround to interact with emojis and GIFs without having to install a separate keyboard - perfect! 👌

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                                                                  miyeta21 Please kindly consider a monthly donation to the project, since it is not a security issue but and upstream AOSP and dealing with it will take up their valuable time.

                                                                  Thanks (again) 😉

                                                                      When it comes to keyboards, I have not been happy in a very long time. Last time I was using a keyboard I actually liked, was when I had a Sony Xperia smartphone. The built in Xperia Keyboard had auto-suggestion and dictionary that actually worked (even in Norwegian! 🥳). It supported automatically switching between languages (if the first two-three word you write is in English, it would start suggesting English words, and the same for Norwegian or any other language you had configured). I have not seen this functionality on any other keyboard since (the other keyboards only give you the option to change locale by clicking a button or swiping the space bar).

                                                                      It could also suggest emojis, if you had used them in relation to a word or a sentence. You could write a word, and if there existed an emoji for that word, it was suggested (e.g. write France and the flag 🇨🇵 would pop up. No more endlessly looking through the flag-tab or any other emoji-tab. Or write fire and 🔥 would appear).

                                                                      It's just a shame that the Xperia keyboard has not been updated since 2017 and it is made for android 7, so I can't install it on newer phones.

                                                                      How is it that there are several open source keyboards out there that has development stopped(?), when they have so much potential? I'm currently using OpenBoard, but autocomplete or suggestions does not work. And I've tried Gboard, but I don't like it, and autocomplete and suggestions does not work there either....

                                                                      I'm not a developer, but I wish someone could just take some of the code from Xperia Keyboard, put it in a open source keyboard (yes OpenBoard, I'm looking at you!), and optimize for Android 14. Is it too much to ask? 🥹 From OpenBoards Github-page I can see that they write that coding a keyboard is very complicated, I don't doubt that. I like OpenBoard, but I really want autosuggestions for words/sentences and a dictionary that works.

                                                                      Link to Xperia Keyboard, if anyone is interested:
                                                                      https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/sony-mobile-communications-inc/xperia-keyboard/xperia-keyboard-8-1-a-0-12-release/

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                                                                        [deleted] Please kindly consider a monthly donation to the project, since it is not a security issue but and upstream AOSP and dealing with it will take up their valuable time.

                                                                        Thanks (again) 😉

                                                                        Your message is well-received. When I can, I will support the project. 😌
                                                                        Cheers.