Gallery: All of Android O’s totally revamped emoji
by Ron Amadeo from Ars Technica - All content on (#2PZAW)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-We're live at Google I/O, where Android O's second developer preview arrived with almost no new announced features. This was mostly an under-the-hood update for the developer preview, and it's apparently stable enough to be declared a "beta" now. In terms of user-facing features, though, there's not a lot to talk about.
One big surprise was the total overhaul of Android's emoji. Nearly every emoji has been redrawn in a new style, and all of the yellow "blob" face designs are gone. The new emoji all get better 3D shading and generally end up with a design a lot closer to what you'd get on iOS. We have dutifully chronicled every new emoji in the gallery above.
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