While both iOS and Android are improving the range of emojis available to users, what we're still lacking are cross-platform pictures that look the same on any device. Well, we can dream, can't we?

For those Android users lucky enough to own a new KitKat-running device, all you have to do is press and hold the enter or search key to get at its new built-in emoji keyboard.

Both iPhone and Android are going to get new emoji symbols this year, and some of them could soon be available inside the betas of iOS 14 and Android 11.

How to get iOS emoji on Android One minor issue with emoji is that although they are standardised, they don’t always play nicely between devices on different platforms.

“So iOS got new emojis yesterday and our iOS counterparts are sending us things we can’t see,” wrote Redditor WoozleWuzzle in a thread posted on /r/Android on Thursday. “Does Android have ...

A couple of days ago we told you that Hiroshi Lockheimer, SVP of Android at Google, announced on Twitter that new emoji recently approved from Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 are soon coming to Nexus devices ...