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TL;DR
- Google simply launched Android 16 DP2, and it contains assist for 7 new emoji.
- The new emoji embrace a face with baggage beneath the eyes, a fingerprint, a harp, and extra.
- These 7 emoji are a part of the Unicode 16.0 launch.
Google has simply shipped the second developer preview of Android 16, and it delivers an entire host of latest developer options. On the person facet, although, there don’t look like quite a lot of new adjustments seen in DP2, a minimum of not so far as we are able to inform. However, there’s a minimum of one enjoyable new characteristic we noticed whereas digging via the replace: assist for the 7 new emoji from Unicode 16.0.
Android 16 DP2 contains an up to date emoji font file with 7 new emoji which might be a part of Unicode 16.0. Unicode, in the event you aren’t conscious, is the common textual content encoding customary that assigns distinctive numbers to each character, image, and script utilized in written communication. It’s what permits computer systems — even these operating completely different working methods — to grasp and show textual content in just about any language. Emoji just like the melting face and upside-down smile are additionally codified within the Unicode customary, enabling them to be shared between units operating completely different working methods or browsers.
Every so typically, the Unicode Consortium provides new emoji to the Unicode customary, that are launched alongside different updates to the usual. Unicode 16.0, for instance, provides assist for the next 7 emoji, as highlighted by Emojipedia:
- Face with Bags Under Eyes
- Fingerprint
- Leafless Tree
- Root Vegetable
- Harp
- Shovel
- Splatter
If you attempt to view that Emojipedia web page and your machine doesn’t assist Unicode 16.0, all you’ll see are empty containers as a substitute of emoji. If you do truly see emoji, although, then your machine does assist the newest set of emoji. This is the case on my Pixel 9 Pro operating Android 16 DP2, nevertheless it’s not the case on my Pixel 7 Pro operating Android 15 QPR2 Beta 2.
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Left: Emoji 16.0 web page considered in Android 15 QPR2 Beta 2. Right: Emoji 16.0 web page considered in Android 16 DP2.
Google is often fairly fast to assist new variations of the Unicode customary, so hopefully the corporate doesn’t take lengthy so as to add assist for the 2025 emoji lineup, which is ready to incorporate a whopping 164 new emoji.
