Google now lets you customise emojis

Emoji Kitchen lets you combine your favourite emojis into customised stickers


Tech Desk February 14, 2020
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Google has now made it easier to be inventive with your emojis and be as expressive as you like.

The search engine giant has introduced a new feature to Gboard for Android which lets you create a mashup of emojis.

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It is called Emoji Kitchen and it lets you combine your favourite emojis into customised stickers.

For example, you could send a monkey emoji wearing glasses or a robot emoji with tears of joy.

PHOTO: Google

“We affectionately refer to this feature as Emoji Kitchen, because you can explore new “recipes” of expressions using your favourite emoji as ingredients,” wrote Jennifer Daniel, Creative Director, Emoji on the company's Blog.

These emojis can easily be used on your favourite apps like Gmail, Google's Messages app, Messenger, Snapchat, Telegram and WhatsApp. however, since the feature has just been rolled out it will take some time before it is available to everyone.

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Follow these easy steps to get your customised emoji:

First, make sure you have the latest version of Gboard.

Then move on to select your emoji from Google’s keyboard app with a messaging app.

Emoji Kitchen will give you a series of stickers to choose from.

Select the customised emoji you would like to use.

The article was originally published on Cnet.

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