There are over 3600 different emojis worldwide and everyone has their favourites. Now Google has animated the popular smileys, giving them a completely new look. New motifs were also presented.
The last big batch of new emojis was announced by the Unicode Consortium in July. Now Google is again presenting new motifs and announcing animated emojis for Android at the same time. The selection thus increases to 3664 motifs. TECHBOOK reveals when you can officially use the colorful emoticons and how you can already try them out in chats.
Google brings new motifs …
The new emojis that Google has announced for Android are based on the current Unicode 15.0 and include quite different motifs. Included are, for example, a comb, new hearts, ginger and peas as well as a fan and a flute. But there are also new animals to discover, including the kicking donkey, a moose head, a jellyfish, a blackbird and a goose. When it comes to smileys, the “shaking face” is new.
The selection of motifs that can be used to describe situations, express feelings or even send whole messages in symbolic form has grown with the new releases. If that’s not enough for you, you can even combine emojis for some time now.
… and animated emojis
The announced animated emojis also bring new impetus. They’re the classics like the grinning, tearful, or angry emoji—only now they’re moving. The fire hisses at the burning heart, the laughing tears emoji spins in circles and the melting emoji does just that – melt. The animated emojis have a very nice design and are spiced up by the movement.
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Availability and usage of the new emojis
Like Google in his Developers blog writes, the new emojis should be available on Android devices shortly. The company will probably first roll out the corresponding update for its pixel smartphones. At the beginning of next year, the new emojis should also land on all other Google products.
With just a few clicks, the new and animated emojis can already be used. Because the entire emoji library, including the source files and associated metadata such as short codes, is on github available as open source. Clicking on the selected emoji opens a menu through which the emoticon can be downloaded. For regular users, saving as a GIF is probably the easiest. They can then embed the animated emoji directly into their chats.