If you have an Android phone, you can bring back blob emojis right now. To start, you’ll need Gboard installed on your phone. Of course, if you have a Pixel, you already have Gboard.

Google has recently unveiled a new feature in the form of the Emoji Kitchen sticker tool for Gboard on Android. This feature allows Android users to combine different emojis directly on their ...

Android once showed a blob-character with closed eyes and folded hands. "Folded Hands was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Person with Folded Hands” and added to Emoji 1 ...

First teased by Emoji Kitchen designer Jennifer Daniel on Twitter, these include some lovely (or weird) new turtle emoji, and some adorable blob-based ones too.

The blob face style that Google used to favour was abandoned in 2017 and each update brings Android emoji closer in line to the clean, round style of iOS.

Thankfully, Android Oreo uses Unicode 10 and has new emoji that include new careers (like women welders and programmers), as well as a woman in a headscarf. There's also a dinosaur.

Turtle emoji: Android 7.1 (left), Android 10 (center), Android 11 (right) In related news, Google is also bringing back the frog emoji from the blob days.

Emoji scan far more quickly than words; a red heart instantly communicates love and compassion, whereas the black version communicates morbidity, sorrow, and dark humor.

On Monday — World Emoji Day — Google took to its blog to officially say goodbye to the old Android emoji while reassuring users blob emoji-themed stickers will be available in Google Allo.

Google replaced its blob emoji with the traditional circular variety when it released Android O. The blobs returned as a sticker pack in Allo but Allo hasn’t been successful.