Emoji Timeline

A timeline of cultural and technical events in the history of emoji

2013

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Google Adds Emoji Support to Android

Android users everywhere rejoice when Google finally adds legitimate emoji support to its Android OS version 4.4 KitKat by making them part of the official Google keyboard app. Before this users had to either memorize specific command words to select emojis, or they had to long-press their spacebars after they installed the correct language packs.