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I search smilies / emoticons for my Android App. I found that there are some open source sets available like used by pidgin.
But I was wondering about the emoticons used in Whatsapp. They are basically very nice. Thus I thought that they are licensed by whatsapp. Now I have installed the messanger "telegram" and I was suprised. They are using the same emoticons than in whatsapp. How can this work out? Are the emoticons publicly available?
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Telegram uses Apple emoji images instead of displaying platform-native emojis. These are updated to use the latest images from Apple, generally one month after public release on iOS. Telegram allows custom stickers to be uploaded, and assigned to certain emojis.
What does 🤓 Nerd Face emoji mean? Nerd alert! The nerd face emoji caricatures a nerd with thick black glasses and buck teeth. It's used to signify learning, reading, being smart, acting dorky, or “geeking out” to your guilty pleasures.
Tapping once on any message will allow you to send different types of emojis. Double tapping will send a default thumbs-up reaction to the message. You can change the default double-tap emoji under the 'Chat Settings' on an Android device, and in the 'Stickers and Emoji' settings in iOS.
On the apps' home screen, tap the Emoji tab. You can download emoji files used by different online platforms like Windows, Facebook, WhatsApp, or JoyPixel. Choose any of the latest iOS versions and download it. After the download has ended, it will show a preview of the new emojis.
Both Whatsapp and Telegram (and a lot of other messenger apps, browsers and operating systems) use the Emoji sets.
The different types of Emoji are a result of different fonts for emoticons; they have a different appearance depending on the "font" used but the base is always a unicode set of characters.
Both Whatsapp and Telegram use the Apple implementation apparently, as Ivo's link specifies. Also see this github for more licensing info.
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I don't think they are actual of Whatsapp put part of an actual Font.
I don't know if anyone can see it but for example on this wikipage I can see all emoticons like they are on whatsapp, and they are actual symbols in unicode and not images. EDIT: I can only see them on my iMac (Apple)
This website says they are actual licensed by Apple if I understand correctly (note 2)
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WhatsApp and Telegram both use a font that has been made by Apple. Apple doesn't license this font, so what they are doing is actually illegal, although Apple apparently doesn't care.
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