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Android 12 is getting new emoji — plus new ones in the future without system updates
Google's basically rolling 2017's EmojiCompat out as part of Jetpack, and that means most apps will get new emoji without updates
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A new Android release usually means new Emoji, and Android 12 is no different. Google has just announced that it's rolling out the changes we spotted yesterday in Android 12 and other Google services like Gmail, Chat, and Chrome OS. That includes 992 redesigned emoji and some of the new (delayed) ones in the Unicode 14.0 standard. Google also tells us that apps will soon be able to harness new emoji separately from system updates. Originally, we were concerned that this was just a rebadging of the older EmojiCompat feature, but after speaking to Google a little more in-depth about it, that's not the case. It sounds like this might actually make a difference, and even older phones will get in on the action.