Enable Emoji Emoticons on Android Phones – How to

By Jean Lou Laborte on August 15, 2012 in How To's, Tutorials

As emoticons are used in IM chats, emoji can also convey information quickly compared having to write it all out with text. The implementation of Emoji on iPhone is similar, but has some differences from the other deployed implementations.

If some of your friends text you using an emoji emoticons, you probably noticed that there are blank spaces in your text messages. But this isn’t because they’re sending you blank messages, its because Android doesn’t natively support the use of emoji. But no worries, here is the solution. Just follow the steps and you can have it too.

Step 1 Download a text messaging application to replace the stock one on your phone. You can use ChompSMS or GoSMS which both apps are available on Google Play for free.

Step 2 Open the app and compose a new text message

Step 3 Now try to insert an emoticon inside your text message. You can do this by pressing the + button to the left of the text field on ChompSMS.

Step 4 Doing this should open a pop up prompting you to download the emoji plugin from Google Play

Step 5 Click OK

Step 6 Download Emoji plug in

Step 7 Going back to the app, you should now be able use the emoji emoticons

Since you’re downloading an app to replace the stocked app, you should go to the stock messaging app’s settings and disable notifications so you don’t get double notifications. How?