Jetpack Compose · Android library

An emoji picker that speaks your user's language.

Compose Emoji Picker drops a full Unicode picker into any screen — search matched to the device's language, recents remembered, colors pulled straight from your Material 3 theme.

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2 search locales — EN / ITMIT licensed

The EmojiPicker composable open over an app, showing search, recents, category tabs and the Smileys & People grid

What you get

Everything a picker needs, nothing it doesn't

😀Full emoji set

A wide range of emojis compatible with the latest Unicode standards.

🔎Quick search

Find emojis fast by category or name, right from the picker.

⌚Recent emojis

The last emojis a user picked stay one tap away, every time.

🌎Multilingual support

English and Italian, in both the UI and the search — more languages welcome via PR.

📱Full Compose compatibility

Built to drop into any Jetpack Compose screen without friction.

Search, not just display

Search that matches how the device talks

Most pickers translate the emoji labels but still search in English only. This one matches the query against the device's own language, so typing in Italian finds the same emoji typing in English would.

Today: English and Italian — more languages land through pull requests.

In your app

Light and dark, both native

The picker fully supports Light and Dark mode, automatically adapting to the colors defined in your Material 3 theme — no extra wiring required.

Light

Dark

Install

Three steps, one dependency

1. Add the repository

dependencyResolutionManagement {
    repositoriesMode.set(RepositoriesMode.FAIL_ON_PROJECT_REPOS)
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        maven(url = "https://jitpack.io")
    }
}

API reference

Every parameter, every default

The full signature of the EmojiPicker composable — three required callbacks and one optional color set that follows your Material 3 theme unless you override it.

EmojiPicker(...)

Prop	Type	Default	Description
open	Boolean	required	Whether the picker is visible.
onClose	() -> Unit	required	Called when the picker should close.
onEmojiSelected	(emoji: Emoji) -> Unit	required	Called when the user taps an emoji.
colors	EmojiPickerColors	EmojiPickerDefaults.emojiPickerColors()	Colors used to paint the picker.

EmojiPickerColors fields — defaults read from your MaterialTheme.colorScheme

Field	Default token	Description
backgroundColor	MaterialTheme.colorScheme.surfaceContainerLow	Background of the picker's container.
searchBarBackgroundColor	MaterialTheme.colorScheme.surfaceVariant	Fill color of the search field.
searchBarIconTint	MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant	Color of the search icon.
searchBarTextColor	MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant	Text and placeholder color inside the search field.
textColor	MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurfaceVariant	Color for category titles and the empty-state message.
activeCategoryTint	MaterialTheme.colorScheme.primary	Icon tint for the selected category tab.
inactiveCategoryTint	MaterialTheme.colorScheme.onSurface	Icon tint for unselected category tabs.

Emoji — passed to onEmojiSelected

Field	Type	Description
id	String	Unique key for the emoji.
emoji	String	The emoji glyph itself.
name	String	Human-readable name, resolved to the matched search language.
slug	String	Identifier-friendly form of the name.
category	String	The Unicode category this emoji belongs to.