Inline emotes/ gifs in adaptive card

[Tyagit3]

Is there a way to use a gif/emotes in an adaptive card?

[Kartik1607]

Adaptive cards support gif. Add the url of gif inside the image element something like

{
    "type":"Image",
    "url": "https://gifurl/"
}

[ignacionr]

I believe @Tyagit3 means to mix 🗣 emoji inside 🙌 text. I can confirm that at least Unicode emoji works perfectly well if properly encoded into the JSON. See the image.

[ignacionr]

@Tyagit3 FYI I created a test that renders a card with a text block that includes Emoji. The test checks that the length of the text rendered is the same as the original string (making sure it didn't chop the chars or misinterpreted the sequence).

You can check it out at 9e7e9d1 ; if you feel this fulfills your doubt, go ahead and close this issue.

Thank you!

[Tyagit3]

@ignacionr This is a simple emoji. I was asking about something similar but to show animated emojis/ animojis.

[ignacionr]

@Tyagit3 I will let the team answer; as a host creator and author, the expressiveness of Unicode Emoji is more than enough. To support your question for the team, it would be great to explain more your intention.

Some very opinionated guesses: you want to create an emotionally appealing content. If this is the case, an image that is close to the text can have an even greater effect. Pretty soon you will be able to use media too (e.g. video). Or you want to replace text in grammatically significant points of the phrasing, with animations. For the time being you could create columns and images. They would look alienated but then again, that kind of communication is already segmented/not smooth anyhow.

Kindly take into account this is my personal opinion.

• Emojis are an important means of communication, and they are implicitly incorporated by supporting Unicode.
• Inline animated images on the other hand, are not as valuable.
• Block images (and soon media) are supported.

[Kartik1607]

Can't wait for it.

Or you want to replace text in grammatically significant points of the phrasing, with animations

@Tyagit3 One thing you can do is to use markdown and add gif's in place of emojis. You would have to take care of image sizing though.

[andrewleader]

Tracking this feature request for inline animated emojis/GIFs here: #2525

Closing this question thread. Markdown with GIFs is a great workaround for now Kartik (but definitely has image sizing issues as you point out), thanks for that though!