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I know this is a non-issue for many, but those emojis look really dated. Every update they get harder and harder to read in small form. One of the things I obse
by jampa 9y ago
I know this is a non-issue for many, but those emojis look really dated. Every update they get harder and harder to read in small form. One of the things I observe, mainly on Instagram Stories is only people with iOS post with emojis attached, I never see Android ones. Too bad there is no way to install custom emojis in any system (without rooting/registry tweaking), like we do with fonts.
- amiga-workbench 9y agoThe yellow blobs were adorable, and sidestepped all the identity politics guff associated with the more anthropomorphised styles.
- curlie 9y agoI like them too. Was disappointed to see the latest ones.
- saghm 9y agoPersonally, I find it kind of ridiculous that new emojis are considered flagship features of mobile OS updates. I'd think that it would be possible to decouple emoji updates from kernel/security updates, so I imagine that Android/iOS tie them to the OS updates solely as a way to motivate non-technical users to update.
- cakedoggie 9y agoMobile OS's aren't just for grumpy old people.
- saghm 9y agoI'm younger than emojis themselves, to be perfectly honest, but I hardly think that an (incorrect) ad hominem makes my point any less valid.
- supercoder 9y agoEmojis have no relevance to how technical someone is
- saghm 9y agoExactly, they have appeal to people independent of technical skill; hence my hypothesis that they make sure to emphasize the things that are more likely to resonate with larger groups of people (like emoji) rather than things like Project Treble or a "native C/C++ API for high-performance audio", even if the former really have little to due with the OS itself. If we're going down that route, it's also worth noting that "old people" such as GP referred to also can like emoji; my parents and grandparents enjoy using emoji.
- scott_karana 9y agoGP's point wasn't that emojis shouldn't be updated, but that it shouldn't require MAJOR/BREAKING VERSION updates (kernel, libraries, the works) to simply update a sprite font.
- cakedoggie 9y agoWho is saying it does? They are just releasing them at the same time.
- qubex 9y agoI don't think they're retroactively releasing them for versions of Android prior to Oreo, though, are they?
- yincrash 9y agoAndroid actually recently released a support library that apps can implement for this. https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/emoji-compat.html https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/...
- batiudrami 9y agoI suspect it's probably just that "by the time we realised this would be important it was too hard to change it" rather than anything sinister. Though I wish they would pull them out so I can swap or update them externally to software. "All current iOS emoji will now work on my phone" was genuinely a highlight of the Nougat update for my Galaxy S7 .
- klondike_ 9y agoI used to hate the blobmojis, but after a while I started to grow fond of them. The weird gradients on the new emojis are a bit jarring. In my opinion the clean, flat style of the old emojis is a lot nicer.
- delecti 9y agoI don't think they're jarring at all. They feel familiar, very reminiscent of early 2000s AIM emoticons.
- TACIXAT 9y agoI absolutely hate those emoji. It's the gradient and outlines, it looks like bad enterprise design. The flat blobs were great.
- ehsankia 9y agoYep, new emojis look absolutely awful. They are so out of touch with what their customers want. It's like the emojis were made by some robot or algorithm that is trying to optimize the wrong parameters. I mean, just look at this comparison: http://i.imgur.com/apqo9Ry.png http://i.imgur.com/apqo9Ry.png
- ftxrcc 9y agoThey're not out of touch with what their customers want. Many of them didn't like them because of the whole "Android is cheap" dilemma (which is BS). The users asked and they got. The people who did like them are a very small, specific, yet vocal group of people.
- ricardobeat 9y agoWhere do you take that from? To me, the new ones look way "cheaper", like ripped off WordArt.
- batiudrami 9y agoThey look more like the iOS ones. That's what's important (even though I think the overuse of gradients makes iOS emoji look dated too). Oddly Facebook Messenger seems to have the best set [1], for my eyes. [1] https://emojipedia.org/messenger/ https://emojipedia.org/messenger/
- ehsankia 9y agoNo they don't. They look like a shitty replica of them made by someone who understands nothing about art. Just because they both have "gradients" means nothing. iOS has smooth 3D gradients. These have a plain and awful looking linear gradient from top to bottom with two colors. The messenger one you linked has so much detail and personality. These ones have neither. They are, as mentioned above, like cheap Clipart. If you honestly can't see the difference between the one you linked and these new Android ones, then I don't know what to tell you.
- enimodas 9y agoThe new emojois are in the top 50 of all time posts in /r/crappydesign https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/6elhjc/the_new_android_emoji_set/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign/comments/6elhjc/the_ne...
- intoverflow2 9y agoFrom kawaii to krappy looks like bad 00s clipart