emoji

Did you ever have emoji shame? Yeah me neither however I have seen emojis from other phones that I preferred. There is now a very quick and simple way to add any style of emoji to your Android phone. All you need is the "Emoji Switcher" app. The app does require that your phone be rooted which...

The latest Swiftkey beta just dropped. It finally fixes the suggestions bug from last month. It also adds plenty of features. The update brings the whole Android Nougat 7.0 emoji lineup to the keyboard. This includes the skin tone modifiers. Just tap and hold the emoji to change the skin tone...

Nougat is finally here for Nexus devices, and yes I am aware that we have had Nougat on our devices for months now however we finally have an official, consumer friendly, and stable build! There are plenty of new features, but probably the only immediately noticeable feature is the new lineup of...

Earlier this year we took a look at the 74 emojis that were being considered for Unicode 9.0. It seems the final list of additional emojis has been decided. The Unicode Technical Committee has approved the following 72 emojis for Unicode 9.0 which will land on both Android and iOS later this...

Ever wanted to send your friend an emoji, but the emoji selection excluded your race or gender? Yea me neither its a yellow circle, ive never really had the time to get worked up over it. Over time though Emojis have become an extension of our personality and who we are as people. Why not...

Today the 3rd Developer preview of Android N was released to the masses at Google I/O. We have tons of changes to Android in this new build. One of the coolest changes has to be the ability to change the color of your emoji. People are diverse shouldn't emoji be diverse as well?! Colors...

One of the coolest new features in the latest build of Android N Developer Preview was a whole new set of Emoji. These new Emoji include more human looking Emoji, in place of the more blob like Emoji. You don't have to actually have Android N or a Nexus device to try out these new Emoji. You can...

Samsung is at it again adding their own flare to Android even though it is not necessarily needed in this case. They have skinned the Marshallow Emoji in touchwiz. The emoji definitely look much more refined and polished, but Samsung did make some weird choices. For instance an "eye roll" is...

Out of the thousands of third party keyboards available on the play store today SwiftKey has to be on of the most popular. It has been updated to finally support the latest and greatest Emojis from Android 6.0.1. To have access to the new Emojis simply install the latest update to the app...

Having a rooted device just means that you have endless options when it comes to the customization of your device. You pretty much have not limits. This means that if you have an older phone you are still able to have the features of much newer devices. The latest versions of Android include an...

Apple updated their unicode with new emoji about a month ago. Android enthusiasts have cried about this enough that Google has decided to update emoji starting with Nexus devices starting next week. Hiroshi Lockheimer tweeted an example of some of the new emoji. The new emoji include food items...

Swiftkey has become one of my favorite aftermarket keyboards over the past few years. One of the main reasons i love it is because it is always improving. Swiftkey continues to push the boundaries with their latest update. Swiftkey 6.0 Beta adds double word prediction. Double word prediction...

There are so many keyboards out there. Over the years I have tried many, but I go through phones so often that I rarely remember to grab a third party keyboard which almost always improves the user experience. Swype has been one of the best keyboards around and has consistently been one of the...