Sep 15, Kathamdnu: Google is adding more emojis to the Android platform. It is using the Unicode 15 standard, which has 21 new emojis. Based on the Unicode 15 update, the new Android emojis are more expressive, and some of them are even animated.

Today, Google is going one step further by adding new emoji characters in color and in black and white, metadata like shortcodes, a new font standard called COLRv1, open-source animated emotes, as well as customization features in the emoji kitchen. Now, it’s easier than ever to speak quickly online. The firm recently updated Google Nearby Share, Google Meet, and Gboard with new features.

New Emoji!

To start with, the Unicode Consortium published all the data files related to the Unicode 15.0 released earlier today, which included 31 new emoji characters. A wing, a hand pointing both left and right, and a face in motion are among the objects in the collection. Now that emojis exist, you can tremble in your boots, make pigs fly, and give high-fives.

With these new additions, there are now 3,664 emojis available, and all of them will be made available across all Google products in the first quarter of 2019. However, given that Google is also adding new animated emojis to the Android emoji library, these might not even be the most interesting developments. You might already have access to 200 of these within Google Messages.

Dancing Emotes

While emojis are nearly unrecognizable from the late 1990s, this introduces KDDI’s first dancer emoji. Like language, emoji evolve. First animations! Scan, download, and watch them dance. You may have seen some in Messages by Google, which supports them now. The artwork is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

New Color Font Support

Emoji innovation is no longer limited to mobile; digital environments have much to offer. Thanks to COLRv1, color fonts like Noto Color emoji may render as crisply as digital images. Color typefaces can also be customized. If using Chrome. Try it!

COLRv1 doesn’t support the 1920s duck emoji. It showcases the new typeface standard’s potential. Interoperability isn’t an issue because your ducks render in the browser. Stretch our imaginations with our colorful illustrations of emojis. Being Emoji-adjacent is exciting. You may adjust the hue of the goth emoji with Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen stickers. Chrome and Edge support COLRv1. Firefox will soon have it.

Customized Emotes

Emoji Kitchen lets you adjust its hue. No shade: I love that “pink heart” was named the “most anticipated emoji” on social networking sites earlier this summer, but what if changing the color of an emote was as simple as pressing a button and didn’t necessitate the Unicode Consortium conducting a cross-linguistic study of color terms to add three new colored hearts? Noto Emoji makes customizing emotes easier. Emoji Kitchen on Gboard may modify the color of a heart by combining emojis.

Availability

The updated Unicode 15 emojis are expected to be added to AOSP “in the next weeks” and will be available for Android in December, according to Google’s plans. Google Pixel smartphones are most likely to receive this update initially.