How to search and send animated stickers in WhatsApp
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Now, if you use Google's default keyboard, Gboard, when you talk on WhatsApp, you can send animated stickers. Thus, you can forget about bland static stickers, expanding your communication possibilities. Because, let's not fool ourselves, many times what we can say through a GIF, a sticker or a good emoticon is much better and more concise than a thousand words.
So we are going to explain how to send animated stickers through WhatsApp. For this you will only need a couple of applications and the procedure is tremendously simple.Just follow the steps below and you can start sending animated stickers today. And not only through WhatsApp, but through any application that is compatible with Gboard, such as Facebook Messenger.
This way you can send animated stickers on WhatsApp
Sending animated stickers on WhatsApp is very simple. To do this, you only need two apps: Google's default keyboard, Gboard, and the Emogi sticker app. You may already have Google Keyboard installed, but there's nothing to lose by taking a look in the app store. The Emogi application can also be found in the application store and you will not have to pay anything for it.
Now, it's time to set the Google keyboard as default. To do this, do the following:
- Enter the settings of the Android phone
- Go to 'System' and 'Languages and text input'
- Then enter 'Virtual keyboard' and 'Manage keyboards'
- Select Gboard as the default keyboard.
You already have the Google Gboard keyboard as your default. Now, you can enjoy many functions of the keyboard itself, such as searching for and sending GIFs. Next, download and install the free Emogi app, available from the Play Store. Once installed, open WhatsApp, open the keyboard and look at the smiley face that you find at the bottom of it, right next to the space bar. Now all you have to do is select the Emogi app icon and send an animated sticker. Be careful, because among all those offered by the application there are static ones.
How to search for animated stickers in WhatsApp
We don't have to settle for the animated stickers that we can see in the gallery in the application. We can also find the sticker that best suits the needs of the conversation we are having at that moment. To search for a sticker related to a certain word, you just have to follow the steps below. The procedure is very simple and you will thus be able to find many more stickers than what the Emogi application offers you at first glance.
Once you're on the Emogi for Gboard screen, look at the bar that appears just above the stickers, with the G for Google at the beginning of everything. This is where you must place the term you are looking for and then send the perfect sticker.We recommend that you look for the stickers using the same language that you have as the main one on your keyboard. Thus, if you have it in Spanish, you will have to put 'Café' if you want to tell your friend that you are still half asleep.
As you have been able to verify, sending and searching for stickers on WhatsApp is tremendously simple, and it is also free. A new way of interacting with others, which expands the previously limited fields of written conversation, thus drawing a changing landscape in which the word has gone from being the main tool to being simply one more. Because sometimes sending a drawing of a coffee yawning is more effective and empathetic than sending a simple 'I need a coffee'.
