Android Question Add and emoticon to a textview

Previously I would have said to use ListView, but I believe that using a xCustomListView is the way to go these days https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...-cross-platform-customlistview.84501/#content

No... I would like to know the solution to add emojis "in line", while the user is typing in an edittext view, and after show this emojis between text characters in a chat balloon (label view???) ... like whatsapp: you can choose and see the images (icons/emojis), put them between the characters of the text that you're typing and when pressing send see them exactly what you typed...
For me looks that in the type area is a edittext view and in chat showing area are labels (in a listview, ok) , but I can't figure out how to use images/emojis between the text characters/letters... do you know how to do that @Peter Simpson ? Is there some system "parse" that translates sequences of letters to emojis? If yes, how can I add emojis more than the android system availability? How does whatsapp has exclusive emojis?
Please, if you know how to do...

Emoji are in a standard KB.. Anyway I have no idea, but you could probably start by looking at this https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/msemoji-v1-0-0.53787/

I don't use WhatsApp or anything like that. My family and friends all contact me via Hangouts as it's standard on Android devices in the first place

I solved an issue like this using the UNICODE Character, and storing the string using Base64

Emojis: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...ution-for-display-emoji-in.61083/#post-385373

Thanks @Erel . I'll check