What is Emoji Keyboard

Today it is difficult to imagine life without smartphones, tablets and laptops, which almost every adult and even child have. Social networks and various instant messengers have made life easier for many by allowing them to quickly contact the right people, wherever they are.

Text messages are still considered one of the most popular ways of transmitting information, and in order to dilute dry text and give it a special mood, emoji were invented.

Important! By definition, emoji is a graphic language of videograms and emoticons used in SMS and on web pages.

How did emoji appear?

The birthplace of badges is Japan. In the late 90s, one of the members of a group of developers working on creating a base for the mobile Internet created about 200 small characters (12 by 12 pixels). He did this to facilitate the process of exchanging messages on i-mode from the NTT DoCoMo operator, which in turn became the company’s calling card.

Almost at the same time, French businessman N. Laufrani drew attention to the extraordinary demand for Japanese symbols and began working with emoticons himself.
With its help, a number of animated figures were created, which were later divided into several groups:

• classic;
• food;
• emotions;
• flags;
• holidays;
• fauna, flora, etc.

Today Laufrani is the CEO of the Smiles concern, which owns all rights to use the emoticon image in more than 100 countries. As for emojis, if previously they were available only to users of gadgets from Nokia, Motorola and Samsung, today all owners of iPhones and Android-based smartphones can use them.

Using Emoji Keyboard on Phones

It’s easy to learn how to use the extended keyboard with emoticons and other images; you just need to be the owner of a smartphone or iPhone that uses a standard keyboard to write text.
Important! In modern phone models, this keyboard is installed by default. If it is not there, the extension can be downloaded through one of the popular resources, such as Google Play Market.

To add a picture to a text message, you must follow these steps:

1. Select a text field and click on the smiley icon or button that opens a list of symbols.
2. Adding an icon to a text field is done by clicking on it.
3. Switching emoji themes occurs through the icons under the keyboard. Some phone models may store frequently used icons under a button with a clock face on it.
4. Holding any of the emoji depicting a human face allows you to change the shade of his skin.

Advanced versions of the keyboard allow you to replace words with suitable icons with one touch. To do this, you just need to open the message program and select one of the dialogs. After this, you need to hold down the button with the smiley image or the button that opens the list of symbols and wait until they become active (change color).Words in the dialogue that can be replaced with emoji will change color and you will need to click on them to replace them. Options for suitable emoticons will appear in the quick replies field.

If the emoji keyboard is not visible, you need to make sure that it is connected:

1. In the phone’s “Settings” menu, you need to open the “General” folder and select the “Keyboard” section there.
2. In the “Keyboard” folder you need to find the “New” section.
3. In the list of “New” you need to select “Emoji”, thereby activating the keyboard with emoticons.

Conclusion

In addition to indicating emotions in personal correspondence with relatives, friends and loved ones, emoji can be used to:

• communication on social networks;
• names of folders and shortcuts stored on the desktop of gadgets running iOS 11;
• drawing up advertising slogans;
• conducting business correspondence.

There are a lot of options for using the emoji keyboard. They help with marketing, search results for text content, and are a huge space for creativity and creativity.