KHALID: ...And I want to reply with a simple thumbs up emoji. (SOUNDBITE OF IMESSAGE NOTIFICATION SOUND) KHALID: But it's not that simple because there's not just one ...

You’ll be to pick skin tones and gender preferences thanks to a new arrow next to certain emoji. You’ll be to pick skin tones and gender preferences thanks to a new arrow next to certain emoji. Jay ...

The Unicode Consortium has published a draft list of emoji that could come to smartphones and other devices in the future. The list shared by Emojipedia outlines 19 emoji candidates under ...

Emoji are colorful icons baked into the on-screen keyboard of most smartphones that allow users to express a number of words and ideas through pictographs. These including birthday cakes, rainbows, ...

Jay primarily writes news and deals posts for Android Police. Before joining AP, he spent the past several years yammering on about the crazy world of Android for various tech outlets. Besides ...

Google is now letting you easily set your own default skin tone and gender for supported emoji in Gboard on Android. Today, selecting a different skin tone – by long-pressing – will result in Gboard ...

One of the buttons in the toolbar of Gmail’s compose window opens an emoji picker that Google is now modernizing with a “more complete emoji selection.” The picker today has just five categories with ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Google has made it easy to change your entire library of emoji inside of Gboard to different skin tones, with ...

Emoji will become more racially diverse in 2015. An update slated to be released next year will allow users to choose between five different skin tones for all their humanoid emoji characters. “People ...

So a lot of times I find myself texting a friend... (SOUNDBITE OF IPHONE NOTIFICATION SOUND) KHALID: ...Or messaging a co-worker... (SOUNDBITE OF SLACK NOTIFICATION SOUND) KHALID: ...And I want to ...