There is now way to input smiles from the keyboard

[weiznich]

Signal-Android let you choose smilies explicit by changing the keyboard. On desktop you have normally a hardware keyboard. Currently I don't found any possibility to type smiley. A workaround is to copy it from an older message.

I see two options to implement this:

1. Add a button to show an explicit dialog to choose a smiley
2. Replace certain string(e.g. :) )with the matching smiley.

[2-4601]

Duplicate of #86, #197, #194 😃
Also try to type :cold_sweat: in the Send a message field.

[McLoo]

just for completeness, emoji are NOT working on Windows right now (#293)

[2-4601]

@McLoo Have you tried with the beta?
The directory structure is different between the git version and the beta extension.

git:

$ ls -dog images/twemoji/16x16
... images/twemoji/16x16 -> ../../components/twemoji/16x16

beta:

$ ls -god images/twemoji/16x16/
... images/twemoji/16x16/

[McLoo]

still on the wait list :) could try grunt it though. thanks for the hint

[weiznich]

Thanks for the hint. I will close this in favour of #197. This needs to be documented somewhere. In the current state it is really unintuitive.