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Use Unicode Emoji as Icons in Native iOS Apps

Posted on April 29, 2012
Filed under Featured, iOS, Programming | 1 Comment

A while back, I wrote about using unicode emoji characters as icons in web apps. The big caveat with that was that these characters were only available on iOS devices, which made the trick much less useful in a web app, which of course are generally meant to be more or less cross-platform. If you’re [...]

Use Unicode Emoji as Image-Free Icons in iOS Web Apps

Posted on July 20, 2010
Filed under iOS, Programming, Scripts | 7 Comments

In version 2.2 of iOS — Apple’s “mobile” operating system used in the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad — support for Emoji was added. These small 12×12 pixel icons are meant to be used in text messaging in Japan but because they’re implemented simply as unicode symbols in the device they can be used as [...]

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