Opening Emojis freezes the Keyboard

[zyweii-3]

I've had the issue for a while where once every few times, trying to open the Emoji window Freezes the keyboard, and i'm unable to close it or type anything. Recently, it started happening every time i tried acessing the emojis.

Staying on the subject of emojis, a few have been added to androids that are not available in the ASK's emoji keyboard.

[Mersadon]

Yes. This is happening to me as well after the last update. Also, I noticed that I cannot even access emojis in the AnySoftKeyboard app, because it crashes each time when I click on emoji settings in the bottom right corner.

[NicoHood]

Related: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/1860

I also noticed that this happens when opening the emoji settings inside the settings app as i tried to disable them as a workaround. 100%reproducible every time!

[zyweii-3]

Yes it did made my app crash when trying to change the setting in app for me too.

What I ended up doing after a while is that I uninstalled and installed back ASK. A pain, but now, I can re-use emoticons again without it crashing again!

Also, the error log I was getting was something along the lines of: "default skin tone can't be set as [none]" or something like that.

[Mersadon]

OK. I confirm that reinstalling the app helped. But you must not backup your settings before the reinstallation and restore them after the reinstall, because then it happens again.

[di72nn]

I don't really have time to figure out how it is supposed to work, but the work around for now is the following:

1. Back up app preferences.
2. Set settings_key_default_emoji_gender to person in the backup file (you don't need to add it, it should already exist in the file). Update: removing this pref altogether should probably have the same effect, but I haven't tested it.
3. Import the modified backup.

Steps to reproduce with the latest version:

1. Clean-install app.
2. Back up app preferences.
3. Set settings_key_default_emoji_gender to any non-default value (e.g., man) in the backup.
4. Import modified preferences backup. Like this one: AnySoftKeyboardPrefs_broken.xml.txt
5. Open the main app screen and press the emoji tab at the bottom - freeze and crash.

[Flashwalker]

• Back up app preferences.
• Set settings_key_default_emoji_gender to person in the backup file.
• Import the modified backup

Here is the solution https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/issues/4341#issuecomment-3167470064

[NicoHood]

It does not even work for me if i set it to "person". Also no effect placing it after the skin tone. None of the workarounds work for me.

[NicoHood]

This is my config:

AnySoftKeyboardPrefs.xml