Google Messages Is Getting Animated Emojis: This is How It WorksPublished 1 day in the past

Google is reportedly testing the power to ship animated emojis utilizing the usual messaging app on Android, Google Messages to make normal messaging livelier and enjoyable, however with sure limitations. 

Based on Android Police, animated emojis are practical solely when a single emoji is shipped by customers. Nonetheless, if customers ship a number of emojis collectively or mix emojis with textual content—the animated performance doesn’t work.

Google Messages already permits customers to ship emojis when texting, however the addition of animated emojis will make the app extra interesting to customers, and produce the expertise in keeping with Apple’s iMessage and others like Telegram. 

As an illustration, iMessage affords quite a lot of textual content bubble results when sending textual content messages or emojis, corresponding to celebration, slam, mild, invisible ink, and display results, together with echo, highlight, balloons, and confetti. Moreover, customers can ship customized ‘Animoji’ emojis by selecting an emoji, character, or their very own avatar and utilizing their very own facial expressions.

That is most certainly Google’s method of introducing an analogous expertise for Android. The brand new animated emoji expertise, which was first noticed by Reddit person BruthaBeige, builds on the Emoji Kitchen expertise, which permits customers to mix two emojis to create a hybrid of the 2, leading to unusual however amusing emojis that customers can ship to one another.

Google’s present implementation is reportedly region-specific, with a broader rollout anticipated sooner or later. It really works with a lot of the accessible emojis on Android.

In different information, Google has additionally added a brand new badge/indicator for RCS chats within the Google Messages app, permitting customers to distinguish between RCS and normal SMS conversations.