title: React-Native Android emoji
body: <p>I am developing a React-Native app where users will be able to send images with captions and also create comments. I would really like to support emoji for this.</p>
  
  <p>At the moment it just works on iOS. The system keyboard automatically provides access to emoji and the render correctly on text views as well. On Android the system keyboard does not provide access to emoji by default and the emoji created by iOS users do not render (just crossed-out square boxes).</p>
  
  <p>I see there is an emoji compat library for Android at <a href="https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/emoji-compat.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/emoji-compat.html</a> but I am not sure how well that will work with React-Native. It looks like you have to use non standard text and inputs to get it working and this will be a bit more complicated on RN.I was also testing on Android 7 which should support emoji natively so maybe there is something else wrong here?</p>
  
  <p>Should I get the emoji to render, I am yet to find a way of making them available in the Android keyboard.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a recommended way to get this working in React-Native? Otherwise, is there any standard Android process I can try to port considering iOS seems to just work already?</p>