The new emojis coming to Android, even the animated ones

The emoji (here our insight on how to install them on Android) have evolved quite a lot from theirs beginnings in the 90s, but now they have become even more funny thanks to the last update.

In a blog post Google Developersthe creative director of emojis at Google Jennifer Daniel has in fact announced the arrival of new emojis (in color and black and white), too animateda new font standard called COLRv1 and new customization features in the “Emoji Kitchen“, which is the Gboard function that allows you to combine two emojis.

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The most important news concerns the publication by theUnicode Consortium of Unicode 15.0, which includes i 31 new emoji characters that we had already seen in July. These new emojis will be added to AOSP “in the next weeks“and they will come up Android starting with the updates in December.

If you can’t wait, you can download the emojis immediately a this address.

But it is not over. For the nostalgic of the first original animated emojisGoogle also announces its own first batch of animated emojis, which you can view and download from here. Some of these animated emojis are already supported in the app Google Messages.

The research giant is also releasing one version of his character open source Known Emojiused in Chrome and other Google products, which also supports color emoji thanks to the new format COLRv1. This now allows you to edit the colors of an emojias long as you use Chrome or Edge, but Google plans to bring it to other browsers such as Firefox.

If you want to send these today emoji in a messaging app, you have to use use stickers Emoji Kitchen in Gboard for customize the color. For example, you can select a red rose and a yellow heart to create a yellow rose.

As we said, the new emojis will be available within the end of the yearbut you can download them right away at indicated above.