These are the new Emoji emoticons coming to WhatsApp for Android
The most popular messaging application in the world continues to offer news week after week. And it seems that WhatsApp always has something in the pipeline for the last few months. Undoubtedly, a great success to satisfy its users and, incidentally, prevent them from migrating to other tools of growing fame such as Snapchat Now, although somewhat later for platform Android, the new version of emoticons Emoji arrives, which expands the collection in a good number of faces, foods, animals, activities, buildings and much more.
In this way, WhatsApp also includes the collection for the Android platform, where the bulk of its users are located. Unicode 8.0. Or what is the same, the latest revision of the consortium Unicode that includes the new emoticons such as the face that only thinks about money, the sick smiley, the upside-down face, the clever one, the thoughtful or the one with the bandaged head Something that promises to multiply the expressiveness of conversations by WhatsApp
For those who don't know, there is an organism that regulates the proliferation of these famous emoticons. This is the aforementioned Unicode Consortium, who are analyzing the proposals for new designs and drawings to use in the chats of WhatsApp , but also on other social networks and platforms, and who decides which are valid and which are not.In this way everything is standardized so that anyone can use them and see them with the same meaning. Something like a real academy of emoticons at a global level The key is that, after approving the new collection, are the different companies , applications and tools which should include them for your enjoyment. Something that WhatsApp has already done with iOS and even on yourweb version
Now Android users can exchange messages loaded with these emoticonswithout seeing blanks, as before. All this with new faces, as well as families of all kinds to represent different alternativesstraight and gay There are also new emoticons from the animal kingdom, where an adorableis now present lion or the always welcome unicorn, in addition to many others.
Along with this we welcome the WhatsApp chats on Android to new foods like taco, the burrito or the champagne There is also activities that were missing such as the golf, the ski, the badminton, weightlifting or car and motorcycle racing, among many others. In the same way, the representative places have been expanded, highlighting above all the religious buildings that represent different cultures and thoughts. Nor have they forgotten to enlarge the symbols, flags and objects
Of course, to accommodate all these new emoticons WhatsApp has decided to expand its tabs That is, the different categories in which they fit. This makes it clearer where to find the caritas, the animals, the Meals and Activities, as useful new sections have emerged.
Now, for now, and as usual, all these emoticons are only available in the beta or test version of WhatsApp for Android , which can be downloaded free from its web page under the responsibility of each user . The rest will have to wait even a little longer until it lands on Google Play Store, something which should not last more than a couple of weeks at most.
This video shows the collection of iOS 9.1, where Unicode 8 is inserted .