![]() ![]() Emojily: This is more of a utility download than an actual app, but Emojily will play well into making sure you’re using the correct emoji if you aren’t sure.If you don’t download this app right now, there’s a direct link to the Play Store listing built into Textra. Textra Emoji – iOS Style: While you’re at the Play Store, you should grab the companion app to Textra, which will allow us to apply the iOS-stylized emoji to Textra’s actual app.Unlike most texting apps on the Play Store, Textra features complete support for customizable emoji, with several different emoji packs available for download and selection on the Play Store. Textra is a free SMS app, although it is ad supported (for $2.99, you can disable ads permanently). It’s pretty impressive stuff, but the real reason we want Textra is because of its emoji capabilities. It features a ton of customization options, from general color themes to per contact color choices-you can even change how the bubble looks inside each message thread. Textra: Textra’s one of our favorite texting applications on Android, a great replacement for the system app that comes with your phone by default.You can either search for the apps on your phone, or grab them using the links provided below: There a few different apps to download from here, but you don’t need them all depending on your use case. Obviously, our first stop for changing up your phone’s emoji is the Play Store. So grab your phone, fire up the Play Store, and let’s get started with loading up iOS-themed emoji right on your Android phone. With the right combination, you’ll be up and running with iOS emoji displayed on your phone in no time. The good news, however: there are a ton of ways to change how your emoji appear on your phone using a number apps available for download on the Play Store. ![]() Emoji are baked into a phone’s font, and is just isn’t feasible to change your emoji through the system font. First, the bad: without rooting your phone-an increasingly difficult proposition for most mainstream Android phones-you can’t change your phone’s emoji at a system level. In this case, we have both good news and bad news. And while some work has been done by Google and other companies to have their appearances look closer to standard emoji on other platforms, after a while, it can be pretty frustrating to constantly have to explain how you’re really feeling after an emoji sends the wrong message. This can create difficulty when communicating with emoji-back in earlier versions of Android, some emoji characters like grimacing or disappointed, looked entirely different than their iPhone or Samsung counterparts. But not every emoji is created equal-some of the artwork created by certain companies simply don’t match what the “standard” emoji artwork should look like. In theory, this should be fine: you send your phone’s version of a smiling emoji to one person, and even though they see it in their own phone’s design language, it’s still a smiling emoji. There’s one major problem with emoji: although Unicode, a standard number system for most computer systems to understand, allow for all phones and computing devices to understand specific emoji, almost every major tech player-be it Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, or even Twitter-have created their own custom emoji art. Among certain communities, some emoji even gained additional meaning and context through its usage. ![]() Like the emoticons of yesteryear, emoji grew in popularity among teens and college students, establishing themselves as a form of online and mobile communication present right alongside-and sometimes without-text. Once it was included by default in all versions of iOS, emoji quickly became a way to communicate not just words and numbers through a text message, but emotions. Though originating in Japan in the late 1990s and early 2000s, emoji didn’t grow popular as a form of communication in the United States and Europe until they were included in iOS 5.0 in late 2011. ![]()
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