WhatsApp launches its racial Emoji emoticons on Android
It has taken time, but users more concerned with respecting racial diversity through conversations on WhatsApp can now use different tones skin on the emoticons Emoji of this application. Of course, at the moment only in its beta or test version And it is that WhatsApp still is finalizing the details before bringing this expansion of its collection of emoticons directly to users of the Android platform, who have been waiting months for it.After its launch on iOS months before the collection was approved by the organization that regulates the use of emoticons, and after going through the web version of the messaging service, now reaches the other majority mobile platform.
This is the version 2.12.161 of WhatsApp, which is available through your official website for all those users who want to test the new functions and features they are working on before anyone else. Of course, versions that do not always work as finely tuned as expected. For this reason they are distributed through this channel before being made public, after the necessary arrangements, in the store of Aplicaciones Google Play A new version that this time launches a good diversity of skin tones to represent major races in any conversation with Emoji emoticons
The Emoji emoticons, for those of you who don't already know, are regulated by the Unicode organization , which studies usage trends and requests for new emoticons that should be added to the current collection. This organization approved a few weeks ago a new consignment of emoticons, where the varieties of skin tone were found, as well as other new ones in terms of animals, faces, gestures and food. However, before it was approved, Apple already integrated into iOS these racial varieties. And it is that this company has always defended diversity. For this reason, WhatsApp users on iPhone can send emoticons with different skin colors from the release of iOS 8.3
The strange thing is that, on Android, despite using the same collection of emoticons Emoji than in iOS, instead of Google , this diversity was not yet present. Until now. Thus, those who install this version of WhatsApp can display the emoticons menu and see how some of them have a mark on the lower right corner Simply keep pressing said icon to display the variety available, then selecting the one you want to attach to the chat. This selection is marked for future uses, being able to perform a long press again if you want to change to another.
Of course, if the user to whom the emoticon Emoji is sent with a different tone than usual does not have iPhone or this updated version for Android you may only see the smiley in normal color, because both devices have to be compatibleIt must also be said that generic emoticons have come to have a skin color yellow, characteristic of smileys or smileys from a few years ago. In short, a step that has been long overdue and that could reach all users of the Android platform in a few days.
Update: Along with the new racial tones, the Vulcan greeting of the well-known character has also been introduced Spock, from Star Trek A greeting symbol that consists of creating a V by pressing your fingers together index and middle fingers, and ring and little fingers with the palm facing forward Something that fans of science fiction will be well aware of.
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