Android 16 DP2 includes an updated emoji font file with 7 new emoji that are part of Unicode 16.0. Unicode, if you aren’t aware, is the universal text encoding standard that assigns unique ...

After Unicode releases its guidelines, software makers such as Apple and Google design versions for their respective platforms. That's why emoji on iPhones look different than those on Android phones.

Unicode’s emoji set has been adopted by major companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, as well as major programming languages like Java and XML among others.