Google Will Finally Fix Up Some of Android's Terrible Emojis

Overall Android is pretty great. But there's one thing they're dropping the ball on and that is their weird as hell blob-like emojis which remain totally confusing when traveling between platforms. 

But this year, Google are going to fix it. 

As part of Android N, Google will roll out a new set of emoji to represent humans. And now they totally look normal, human-like and are an array of pleasant human-like colours. Hopefully this will really help everyone understand what they are sending and receiving.

Google previewed a handful of them in a blog post announcing the change.

Below you can see Google's mistake when they made their police officer emoji. Instead of using a human, the old design basically just chucked a cap on an alien slug.

Here you can see how Google has improved the dancer emoji. The new one signifies a human dancing, whereas the old one is something you might send to make someone so uncomfortable they never speak to you again:

Alongside the introduction of these new designs, Google is also adding the ability to select the skin tone of human emoji. It's been a feature that's been in high demand; Apple first added it to iOS this time last year.

The ability to do all of these things is likely to happen around October.

Here's a preview of the new emojis to come: