Anderson says that the team has been working to “dramatically refresh” these emojis to create something that is “innately Fluent” by option for 3D designs and animations, moving away for 2D.

And it looks like we're about to get another fun new feature: animated emoji. We've heard that this one is in development from multiple rumours, and the latest one adds fuel to the rumour machine ...

In addition to activating Google Messages Screen Effects by using certain text phrases, the animations are also called up by ...

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Several emoji can now trigger Screen Effects animations on Google Messages (Unsplash - representational image) Android Authority found that while sending texts consisting of two same emoji ...