If the beauty of Android lies in affordability, the other face lies in updates. Unless you’re having a latest flagship from a Tier one brand or an advanced user who can tweak up with the nuke and corner of your device, you’re mostly done with 1 or 2 updates. While most users don’t care about this, some do.
Especially, if you’re a person who likes to play with Emoji’s and you are stuck with an old device then you are probably going to suffer a lot. There are many noticeable differences between the adjacent versions of Android the most unfortunate of all is the absence of most of the Emojis in the older versions. This issue has always been a headache for core Android users but somehow went unnoticed under the watchful eyes of Google’s developers. But they finally seem to be addressed the issue and working on it.
Back at Google I/O, the search giant announced that Android O will come with support for Emoji 5.0, which adds a huge number of new pictograms for us to use. However, if you’re running an older Android version, when someone sends you one of those new images, you will be presented with a small empty box instead. However, Google has just managed to find a solution to this issue through a library called Emoji compat library. This will allow developers to keep their emoji-related experiences consistent across the majority of Android devices.
The library works with Android 4.4 KitKat and above, and it’s meant to detect incompatible emoji and replace them with the appropriate picture. The way we see it, it’s something like Google Translate for emoji – you put an incompatible string of characters in one end and a fully-working smiley face comes out of the other.The problem is that the EmojiCompat process will not be a core function of Android.
Instead, developers will have to implement it into their apps individually. This means that you might be able to see the new Zombie emoji in one app, but receive an empty box in its place in another.
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Source: Android Developers Via:Â Android Authority
