tries to pay me back on Venmo but struggles to find the pizza emoji among all the others I wish I could just type “pizza” and the pizza emoji would just show up Amazing idea! (Why isn’t this already a thing?) I can do that!!!
an email to the Product, Design, Engineering teams with a link to download a build of Venmo with the first iteration of Emoji Autocomplete May 8th 2015
team had very positive feedback. We immediately started working with Product and Design to polish and improve it. Two days later, we submitted an updated version (6.10.0) of Venmo to Apple that included Emoji Autocomplete. Polish Submit
6.10.0 is approved by Apple and launched to the App Store! I publish a post on Emoji Autocomplete in the Venmo blog to announce the new feature. March 15th 2015
it in its keyboard with its iOS 10 release in Fall 2016) “Similar to Venmo's Emoji Autocomplete, the new “tap to replace emoji” feature automatically highlights words that could be replaced with an emoji” - Slate Magazine, June 2016
the word at the current cursor position is searched across a long list of names 2. If one or more emoji are found as match results in this list, show them to the user