Android Keyboard with Emoji

Question

So I want to have a keyboard in my app that has emoji just like Whatsapp or Hangouts. How can I do that? I want to leave my key keyboard as it is I just want to add tabs to put emojis. I would think it would be easily supported by the soft keyboard but I can find nothing so far. Anyone could tell how to do it?

UPDATE: The keyboard with emoji is included in Android KitKat and can be accessed by long pressing the new line button in the keyboard. The Hangouts keyboard however has the emoji icon visible instead of the "new line" key. If someone knows how to make this the default (either in layout or programmatically) I will take that as the correct answer.

Answer 1

As @dbar pointed out, the answer is:

android:inputType="textShortMessage"

But in my case, I was already using textMultiLine, so I had to use the both of them together:

android:inputType="textMultiLine|textShortMessage"

Looks like this:

I'm not sure about the Exact android version, but this should work only on Android 4.1 and above