Display emotion icon in Android TextView via Unicode chars or other way
<p>I try to make a chat application for android. Here, I want to show emotion icon in android Text View.</p>

<p>I want to show Emotion Icon like this.</p>

<p><img src="http://i.stack.imgur.com/8f6ln.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>

<p>I found one project in github :: <a href="https://github.com/sharakova/EmojiTextView" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sharakova/EmojiTextView</a>. Here is image in drawable but i do not use image. i want to use Unicode chars. So, How can show Emotion icon via Unicode chars.</p>

<p>Some one tell to use Spannable Text but it make my application slow. when use many Emotion icon in chat.</p>

<p>So, Here any way to show Emotion icon in android Text-view?.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>
