Google today showed off its new emoji for Android 11. Cute animals are present, more types of family have been added, and the company lets you choose a wider variety of food to add to your text missives.
Emoji are a fun way to communicate — or confuse — your friends and family, but if you’ve never used an Android phone, here’s how to use emoji on the Gboard or SwiftKey keyboards.
Google is updating its Gboard app for Android with custom emoji. Users will be able to create new emoji by mixing and matching with Gboard for sharing in their favorite apps.
Express yourself with a green bell pepper, black cat, or non-binary symbol
Samsung is now updating emojis as a separate software package, a process that makes it easier to add and change the icons without the need for a larger system software update
The Unicode Consortium has, for the first time, released a list of the most popular emoji. Unsurprisingly, it was full of hearts, smiles and laughter.
In an effort to make emoji even more inclusive, Google is about to roll out 53 new gender fluid emojis.
Ever wanted to create your very own emoji that looks just like you? Emoji Minis stickers on Gboard now allow you to do just that!
Google's blob-style emojis were ripped from our hands with Android Oreo, but thanks to new sticker packs for Android Messages and Gboard, you can start using them once again.
Emojipedia reports Apple has submitted a proposal to Unicode for emoji that will "better represent individuals with disabilities."
Samsung's emoji have always been – unique. Thankfully, the Android Oreo / Samsung Experience 9.0 update makes them look much more similar to universal standards.
Emoji 11.0 is now official, and it'll add a total of 157 new emoji later in 2018.
This has caused quite a storm — and some would say rightfully so.
Emoji can be awesome, adorable, and… they can be a big, fat pain in the 🍑. There are a lot of custom emoji keyboards on Android, like Disney Emoji Blitz, and I’m sorry to say they’re all 💩.
A reflection on the yellow-bellied emoji that many of us have come to love over the years.
The Unicode Consortium finalized the Unicode 10 spec today, introducing 56 new emoji that includes the likes of "bearded man," "mage," "zombie,"T-Rex," and many more.
The newly launched Galaxy smartphones are shipping with Nougat, making them the first Samsung smartphones to include the new Emoji 4.0 right out of the box.
Google's inclusive emojis mean nothing if only a small percentage of its users feel represented.
Unicode 9.0 is now official, making standard a set of 72 new emoji, 7,500 characters and more.
As the use of emoji grows in regular speech, a new app has tapped into the vast intelligence of neural networks to help you choose the perfect one — faster.