Ability to search for Emoji

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It is possible to search for an emoji on the phone ( within the app, not dependent on the keyboard ) . Example , search for angry face emoji, and get this

How it works on the phone

How it works currently within Android Messages Desktop 5.4.1

Describe the solution you'd like A text search box to search for emojis.

Describe alternatives you've considered Running a short text search in the browser and copying the emoji from the results is currently an alternative. For most users, a few quick alt+tabs aren't that difficult.

Additional context N/A

[philogit]

@OrangeDrangon, I noticed in your comment on another issue here that you tend to defer to the web app for implementation when it comes to complex features. Would consider this request to be relatively straightforward to implement?

[OrangeDrangon]

Many os have a ui for this. Google for your respective platform