This week iOS and OS X received a new update that support for new emoji, including the famous middle finger. These are not seen on Android devices as yet no support for it, not even in Android 6.0 Marshmallow.
Why does not the new emoji?
When you emoji sends, it seems like you’re sending a small picture to your interlocutor. That is not the case, because you send a text character, as when sending a regular letter. These characters are defined in the Unicode standard, each having a unique code. The consortium behind identify which new emoji be included, but it only concerns the definition of an emoji. The final image that is displayed is dependent on the system and the manufacturer of a device. The emoji are actually part of a font can be different on each device.
In the case of the new emoji Apple has already the new pictures hung on the unique code provided by the Unicode standard. When you send these emoji to another, in a system where the new emoji are not yet available, the other person will see the symbol for a letter or character which is not recognized. This is usually a square or a square with a line through it. This is true for the middle-emoji on Android. This also applies to the earlier emoji with skin color, in which in addition to a familiar image of a boy is, for example, to see a small square. That square then describes the skin color of an emoji
But you might ask:. “But why do I see them on WhatsApp, then?”. That has to do with it to that WhatsApp does not use the systeememoji. Instead WhatsApp defines its own emoticons, and that the company can do: all messages sent via WhatsApp, are received by another app WhatsApp. This means that the company itself can ensure that everyone who receives the emoji, has access to the new pictures. That is, for example e-mail and text message a completely different case: there are many other applications and websites on which e-mail and text messages can be read. Incidentally, this also provides for WhatsApp sometimes problems, for example with the introduction of the middelvinger- and skin-emoji that can be seen when on long not all devices were.
What will Google do?
Hiroshi Lockheimer, the boss of the Android project at Google, in recent days received many requests to also add the new Android emoji. These requests came mostly in the form of ‘threats’ to an octopus-emoji what to do. Today he responded to the request with a thank you for the feedback, the message that they are working on it and apologize.
He also invited the “plaintiffs” let the octopus alone, since it beessie a beat to can do.
Now the question of what exactly Google is going to do. Are the new emoji added to the next version of Android, such as Android 6.1 or Android 6.0.1? That’s a possibility, but means that the (literally) probably still years away more than half of Android users can see the new emoji.
Another possibility is that Google will distribute the new emoji through an update of Google Play or services. It seems a good solution allowing anyone with Android 2.2. directly or higher can use the new emoji, but whether this is technically feasible, partly because different manufacturers use their own emoji packages, is not entirely clear. If not, we will probably still have to really wait for the next update for Android.
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