What is an emoji keyboard: how did it appear, use

Today it is difficult to imagine life without smartphones, tablets and laptops, which almost every adult and even a child has. Social networks and various instant messengers have simplified the life of many people so that they can quickly connect with the right people, wherever they are.

Text messaging is still considered one of the most popular ways to transmit information, and in order to dilute the dry text and give it a special mood, such as emoji were invented.

Important! By definition, emoji is a graphic language of videograms and emoticons used in SMS and on web pages.

How did emoji appear?

The homeland of the icons is Japan. In the late 90s, one of the participants in the development team working on creating a base for the mobile Internet created about 200 small characters (12 by 12 pixels). He did this to facilitate the i-mode messaging process from the NTT DoCoMo operator, which, in turn, became the company's calling card.

Almost at the same time, French businessman N. Laufrani drew attention to the unusual demand for Japanese characters, and he himself began to work with emoticons.
With its help, a number of animated figures were created, which were later divided into several groups:

• classic;
• food;
• emotions
• Flags
• Holidays
• fauna, flora, etc.

Today, Laufrani is the CEO of Smilies, which owns all the rights to use the emoticon image in more than 100 countries. As for emoji, if earlier they were available only to users of gadgets from Nokia, Motorola and Samsung, today all owners of iPhones and smartphones working on the base can use them Android.

Using keyboard emojis on phones

Learning to use the extended keyboard with emoticons and other images is easy, enough be the owner of a smartphone or iPhone, in which the standard text is used to write keyboard.
Important! In modern phone models, such a keyboard is installed by default. If it is not, the extension can be downloaded through one of the popular resources, such as “google play market”.

To add a picture to a text message, you must do the following:

1.  Select a text field and click on the smiley icon or button that displays a list of characters.
2. Adding an icon to a text field is done by clicking on it.
3. Switching emoji themes occurs through the icons under the keyboard. Some phone models may save frequently used icons under the button on which the clock face is drawn.
4. Holding one of the emoji depicting a human face allows you to change the shade of his skin.

Extended keyboard versions let you replace words with suitable one-touch icons. To do this, just open the program with messages and select one of the dialogs. After that, you need to hold down the button with the image of the emoticon or the button that opens the list of characters and wait until they become active (change color). Words in the dialogue that can be replaced by emojis will change color and you will need to click on them to replace them. Options for matching emoticons appear in the quick response box.

If the keyboard with the emoji is not visible, you need to make sure that it is connected:

1. In the phone’s “Settings” menu, open the “General” folder and select the “Keyboard” section there.
2. In the "Keyboard" folder, you need to find the "New" section.
3. In the list of "New" you must select "Emoji" thereby activating the keyboard with smiles.

Conclusion

In addition to indicating emotions in personal correspondence with relatives, friends and loved ones, emojis can be used to:

• communication in social networks;
• names of folders and shortcuts stored on the desktop of gadgets running on iOS 11;
• compiling advertising slogans;
• conducting business correspondence.

There are a lot of options for using the emoji keyboard. They help in marketing, search results for text content and are a huge scope for creativity and creativity.