Android O brings a lot of great new changes to Google’s OS, but one thing that a lot of people are going to miss are the blobs that made up Android’s emoji library. Android O will swap those out for ...

Android users will finally say goodbye to the weird emoji blobs of the operating system once Google rolls out Android O. Users who will choose to participate in the Android O Beta program will already ...

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With Android O, due later this year, Google will be changing the look of its emoji to a look more consistent with the icons seen in Apple's iOS 10. Previous versions of Android have often used a "blob ...

If you own an Android phone, you're probably familiar with Google's unconventional emoji. They're slightly blob-shaped and alien-like. Some of them are downright scary, others have a quirky charm to ...

This is great news. I, for one, am a hardcore emoji stan, frequenting selections like , 🌈, and 🎉. They help me express emotion in ways words might not always be able to — especially with non-human ...

A ton of things happened at Google I/O, but somehow the biggest news from last week was never even mentioned onstage: the latest version of Android will kill the blob-style emoji and replace them with ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Google killed off its blob emoji as the native emoji for Android last year, but to celebrate World Emoji Day, ...

Emoji on Android has changed a lot over the years, and with the coming release of Android 12, Google is tweaking the design yet again. This time around, the company is tweaking hundreds of emojis with ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...