Android 16 DP2 includes an updated emoji font file with 7 new emoji that are part of Unicode 16.0. Unicode, if you aren’t aware, is the universal text encoding standard that assigns unique ...

Unicode’s emoji set has been adopted by major companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, as well as major programming languages like Java and XML among others.

Emoji have become a core part of how we communicate, and today, Google has a few announcements, including Unicode 15 emoji additions, animated versions of Android’s emoji, and more.

MORE than 30 new emoji will be coming to a smartphone near you very soon. The fresh arrivals range from a shaking head and a high five, to a hair pick and even maracas. 20 new icons were approved b… ...

Unicode announced this year’s 117 emoji back in January, which include 62 new additions as well as 55 new gender and skin tone variants.They normally get a wide release in the second half of the ...

These Are The Two Emoji That Weren't Approved For Unicode 9 But Which Google Added To Android Anyway. ... and Google's recent support of Unicode 9 emoji in Android N might be a good example of that.

The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit responsible for releasing standardized sets of emoji for Android and iOS, says it is postponing submissions of emoji for its 14.0 release by six months.