Google Messages Is Getting Animated Emojis: Here’s How It Works – News18

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. 

According to Android Police, animated emojis are purposeful solely when a single emoji is shipped by customers. However, 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 consistent with Apple’s iMessage and others like Telegram. 

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

This is probably Google’s manner of introducing the same expertise for Android. The 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 area-particular, with a broader rollout anticipated sooner or later. It works with many 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.