Android chief says new emoji underwayOctober 24, 2015 - 17:48 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Hiroshi Lockheimer, the senior vice president for Android, Chrome OS, and Chromecast, took to Twitter to pledge that Google will catch up with all those missing icons your iPhone friends get to use, PC World reports. “So I have a feeling y’all want new emojis? a) Thanks for the feedback, b) We’re on it, and c) Sorry!” Lockheimer tweeted. While the little, yellow creatures and symbols may sound trivial, Android has actually been a little slow to take up the latest standard. That means Android users have been missing out on some new visual ways to express themselves. Multiple skin tones, faces, and the critical taco emoji are part of the Unicode 8.0 release, which isn’t implemented in Android yet. Every software maker is free to make their own emoji graphics, as long as they stick to the standard set. Android chooses to represent faces in emoji using little blob people that could be a close cousin to the Oompa Loompa, instead of the typical round faces you see in most other operating systems and apps. They may not be your cup of tea, but there’s a good chance that’s what you’re stuck with. The story behind the story: While Android usually adopts common standards, it's been a little slow to pick up on the new emoji in Unicode 8.0. We’d love to see Google jump on board with the latest, so we can all give Taco Tuesday a proper celebration. Good news is that Lockheimer has his team working on just that, as indicated by his latest tweet. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Putin congratulates Pashinyan’s birthday Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on his birthday on June 1. Opposition motorcade en route to Gyumri for large rally A motorcade of protesters headed by Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan is heading to the city of Gyumri. Ruling MPs, Foreign Minister talk Armenia-Azerbaijan processes MOs from the ruling Civil Contract party met with the Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan in the Armenian parliament. Russia: Armenia’s frozen membership weakens CSTO position in Caucasus A Russian envoy said any step that could alienate the CSTO member states from each other is “deeply wrong”. |