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My apologies! Explicitly enabling EmojiCompat by calling setEmojiCompatEnabled(true) does not resolve this issue.

I've tracked this down a bit more to this condition in EmojiTextWatcher: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/support/+/refs/heads/androidx-main/emoji2/emoji2-views-helper/src/main/java/androidx/emoji2/viewsintegration/EmojiTextWatcher.java#79

Our app replaces text referencing the name of an emoji with the emoji itself. Example: :melting_face: -> 🫠

This results in the before value being greater than after

before <= after == false

This condition in EmojiTextWatcher prevents EmojiCompat processing from executing on the updated text, resulting in tofu on older Android devices that do not have glyphs for the replaced emoji code points. Why does EmojiTextWatcher have this condition? Can it be removed?

Thank you!

Workaround/Solution

Copy EmojiTextWatcher to create a new TextWatcher that executes EmojiCompat.get().process(..) when before > after == true and add it to the EditText via addTextChangedListener

• GitHub gist: https://gist.github.com/evanisnor/94a5b137e8a74e0ca6017a3ae10da9ea

This would also impact any EditText widget and not just AppCompatMultiAutoCompleteTextView

Thanks for the excellent bug report!

I'll take a look and see if I can remove the condition. For now please continue using your workaround (it'll be probably next year before a stable version of EC has the fiX).

Thanks, Sean

Thanks, Sean! Much appreciated!

This won't make 1.4. Evaluating for 1.5.