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New 2019 Emoji!

Kellen February 5, 2019

The new emoji for 2019 have been revealed, thanks to the folks at Unicode and Emojipedia. There are 230 in total as a part of Unicode 12.0, with new emoji for the sloth, otter, ice cube, drop of blood, waffle, people holding hands, and more. You'll also find...

Gboard Intros Mini Emoji to go Along With Your Custom Stickers

Tim October 30, 2018

Earlier this year, Google introduced custom stickers in Gboard called Minis. We've been playing with them for a bit, but today, Google announced that Gboard is getting the ability to create Mini Emoji, too! Using machine learning, neural networks, and wizardry...

Google Brings Back Blob Emoji, Available as Stickers for Gboard and Android Messages

Tim July 17, 2018 11

Google killed off its blob emoji as the native emoji for Android last year, but to celebrate World Emoji Day, the company has announced that its bringing them back to live inside of Gboard and Android Messages. If you want to be technical, you could still...

Samsung Fixes Emoji in Android Oreo Update

Kellen February 12, 2018 26

Samsung's emoji have always been really bad. So bad, in fact, that it's often impossible to tell what the emoji in front of you is trying to describe or which emotion it's trying to invoke. With the Android Oreo update for Samsung phones that's dubbed the...

Here are the New Emoji You Can Expect in 2018

Tim February 8, 2018 5

Unicode announced its list of new emoji for 2018, and thanks to Emojipedia, we're getting an idea of how they may shape up when released by the various OEMs who create their own interpretations. The highlights from the new list include a llama, toolbox, salt...

THANK YOU, GOOGLE.

Kellen November 28, 2017 30

Android 8.1's biggest change - the burger emoji fix. America, great again. // Emojipedia

Gboard Gets Stickers and Bitmoji Support

Kellen August 31, 2017 11

The latest update to Google's Gboard keyboard on Android brings with it support for both stickers and Bitmoji. As Tim just explained to me, Bitmoji are personalized emoji that you design to look like yourself and are super popular with 12 year olds and his 40-...

Bye Bye, Blobs: Android O Intros New Emoji

Tim May 17, 2017 37

If you're busy flashing the Android O beta to your Nexus or Pixel device, you'll soon discover a revamped emoji library on your device. To sum up the changes, RIP to the blobs. As you might already know, various OEMs provide differing libraries of emoji, so...