


When an user then enters an emoji via the Gboard keyboard, this area is then populated with different sticker options using “mashed up” versions of Google’s own emoji design set.Ībove: the Emoji Kitchen offering mash up options of the 🥶 Cold Face emoji on WhatsApp for Android. When a user opens the Gboard emoji area from the keyboard (where emojis, gifs and stickers access is stored), the tab featuring the emojis from the Unicode Standard now featured an additional area embedded above the search featured and the various emoji categories: this area is effectively the “serving plate” of the so-called Emoji Kitchen, and is where Gboard’s suggested emoji mash-ups will be displayed.Ībove: the Emoji Kitchen “loading” display before an emoji is selected by a user. In naming this new feature the "Emoji Kitchen", Google seem to be channeling a sense of creative cookery (and maybe a little of the phrase "everything but the kitchen sink"). Named Emoji Kitchen by Google, this emoji mashup feature is available in the latest beta release of Gboard for Android.Ībove: The Emoji Kitchen feature shown on a Google Pixel device, displaying "mash up stickers" based around the 🤯 Exploding Head emoji. The new functionality allows users to mix and match certain emoji expressions, with the results suggested in the keyboard for input as a sticker.
Twitter mashup update#
This week Google released an update to its emoji keyboard allowing emoji mashups within Gboard for the first time.
