Android chief pledges new emojis are on the way

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 23 Oct 2015

Android’s boss has heard you loud clear: new emojis are coming.

Hiroshi ckheimer, the senior vice president for Android, Chrome OS, Chromecast, took to Twitter to pledge that will catch up with all those missing icons your ione friends get to use.

ile the little, yellow creatures symbols may sound trivial, Android has actually been a little slow to take up the latest stard. That means Android users have been missing out on some new visual ways to express themselves. Multiple skin tones, faces, the critical taco emoji are part of the Unicode 8.0 release, which isn’t implemented in Android yet.

Every software maker is free to make their own emoji graphics, as long as they stick to the stard set. Android chooses to represent faces in emoji using little blob people that could be a close cousin to the Oompa ompa, instead of the typical round faces you see in most other operating systems apps. They may not be your cup of tea, but there’s a good chance that’s what you’re stuck with.

The story behind the story: ile Android usually adopts common stards, it’s been a little slow to pick up on the new emoji in Unicode 8.0. ’d love to see jump on board with the latest, so we can all give Taco Tuesday a proper celebration. Good news is that ckheimer has his team working on just that, as indicated by his latest tweet.