How to make your own emoji on Android phone

Communicating using social media or messaging apps has become expressive and colorful as we insert one or multiple emojis to express our reactions and thoughts. Indeed, you have chosen emoji icons from your Android phone keyboard when typing some text.

Communicating using social media or messaging apps has become expressive and colorful as we insert one or multiple emojis to express our reactions and thoughts.

Indeed, you have chosen emoji icons from your Android phone keyboard when typing some text. That’s nice, but you’re probably wondering if you have some other emojis that could better suit your conversation. Get ready as you are about to create your emoji and share it, either for communication or just for fun.

 

Start with Gboard

Before starting, you need to set Google keyboard and Gboard as the default keyboard. You may need to download or update it from the Play Store. Your phone is with you already, right? Now follow this short guide.

  • Go to the messaging app and open the text box.
  • Click on the Smiley Face emoji icon to open the keyboard
  • On the left side of the GIF button, there is the “Stickers” button. Hit it.
  • Tap on the far right and click the “Gear” button.
  • Click “Create” and take a selfie as suggested.
  • You will see some emojis based on your face.

The created emojis are presented in artistic styles. You can edit these emojis (also known as Minis) by clicking on the “Customize” button. Save your emojis.

You can now add created emojis to any message. Just open the keyboard of a text box, go to the “Stickers” section, and there you will find the customized emojis.

Gboard special feature

Have you ever wanted to express emotions more realistically and couldn’t find the emojis to do this? You can already combine two emojis (emoji stickers, to be more precise). Google launched a recent interesting feature called Emoji Kitchen in early 2020. It works on well-known messaging apps like Gmail, Google Messages, Messenger, Snapchat, WhatsApp, and Telegram.

Emoji Kitchen is still a Google test, so you must register first. Download Emoji Kitchen and again make use of the Gboard keyboard.

Here’s how to learn to use Emoji Kitchen to cook different emojis.

 

  • Open your browser and type “Beta test the Google app for Android.”
  • Enter the support.google.com webpage. You will see a sub-heading “Sign up as a beta tester.”
  • Click on the blue link “opt-in page,” and you will be redirected to a new page.
  • Click on the blue box “Become a Tester.”
  • Wait for a few minutes to connect your account to the beta version.
  • Go to the messaging app and open the text box.
  • Click on the Smiley Face emoji icon to open the keyboard.
  • There is a space between the emoji library and the text box. You’ll see the message “tap an emoji to get stickers.”
  • By clicking on any emoji and you’ll see the stickers appearing inside that blank space.

(as a model example, if you select the pumpkin, it shows a pumpkin sticker with a ghost blended into it)

  • Select the suitable sticker, and it’ll be placed automatically in the text box. The emoji will be ready to be sent in the message.

Not all emojis are supported here, though.

Explore Apps

Keep enriching your content and have fun when chatting, as there is a whole world of emojis in terms of apps. You may want to explore various apps to build original emojis and stickers. Check out these highly-rated apps:

Emoji Maker (by MimiSoft Studio) – a good one where you can make many emojis and stickers (even in high definition) and customize them with hundreds of accessories.

Emojidom (by PlantPurple) – make your smileys and set them as avatars to your phone contacts; import and customize your photos and add text to smileys. (parental supervision is required)

Anymoji (by Xi’an Ni Xi Network & Technology Co) – an example that enables the creation of 3D animal emojis (animoji). Its TrueDepth feature captures our muscular faces so that an animoji just created can embody our expressions.

If you are more into building avatars, animated stickers, sending videos, and seeing other apps such as Memoji, Wemoji, Bitmoji, etc. Enjoy!

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