Google revives its blob emoji as sticker packs on Gboard and Android Messages

Google revives blobs, its correct emoji, as sticker packs on Gboard and Android Messages A year after blobmoji were rudely replacedYou're going to see a lot of emoji this day now that the web has declared it the international holiday for celebrating them. But only one determine of emoji is worth remotely caring about, and it's the return of the blobmoji on Google. Yes, technically the blobs live on via Allo, but ever the messaging app's development was put on indefinite "hold" back in April, Google's now reviving the blobs as a sticker pack on Gboard and Android Messages. Google killed its blob emoji last year, and it has ever replaced them by a level circular shape (read: generic) to align its offering by emoji from other operating systems. And earlier this summer, blobmoji began disappearing from the last remaining places, like Google Hangouts on the web.

Google Fuchsia: everything we know about the next Android

Google is working on a successor to its highly-popular Android mobile operating software, according to reports. A team of engineers at the US-based tech giant have been developing the new system, dubbed Project Fuchsia, for the past 2 years, says Bloomberg. Google now has more than 100 experts working on the major software update, the news site adds. Here's everything we know about Android's rumoured replacement:What is Project Fuchsia? In short, Project Fuchsia appears to be a new operating system for mobile devices that is intended to replace the ten-year-old Android software.

Fix for glitchy Google Maps visuals in Android Auto rolling out now

as mentioned in Back in April, users announced to Google that their Android Auto head units were showing weird, glitchy visuals under some circumstances. Google has acknowledged this, though, and says a fix is rolling out now. The original complaint described an image that "pixelated;" the issue makes Google Maps look compressed, by blocky artifacting across the screen. Users described experiencing this by a variety of different cars and devices, but always in the Google Maps app. The glitch was apparently tricky to address, as it was an issue by chipdetermine firmware rather than Android Auto.

Only Google should be mad about having to change Android

The first is forcing companies that need to use Android and pre-install the Google Play Store to include its Chrome browser and Google Search apps, and not install alternatives. The 2nd is illegally paying device makers to exclusively pre-install Google Search. Finally, preventing companies from using other, competing forked versions of Android if they are alextremely selling Google's Android on other devices. To install Android by Google Play and other Google apps, there are rules to be followed, and acceptance by Google. Pichai said Google going to appeal the EC decision, that may change everything again, depending on the outcome.

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