In iOS, in the native Emoji keyboard, you can see your most recently used Emojis. I would like to know if it is possible to get the data on those Emojis (which is app-independent) from inside my app.
My goal is to display the most used emoji, given a user, in my app.
If you just want an Emoji selector you could use/modify libraries like SYEmojiPopover or AGEmojiKeyboard which allows you to have full control on the output without messing with the iOS internals (albeit the "recents" list will be app-specific).
On iOS 9 the preferences are stored in the
com.apple.EmojiPreferences
suite, which you could extract the list of most recently used emoji by: