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WhatsApp Is Testing Animated Emojis In Beta

by Low Boon ShenApril 20, 2023
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WhatsApp Is Testing Animated Emojis In Beta

In practice, it looks more similar to animated stickers seen in many chat apps – though there’s some differences.

WhatsApp Is Testing Animated Emojis In Beta

Image: WABetaInfo

WABetaInfo has spotted a new feature currently undergoing testing on the WhatsApp’s beta channel. It’s fairly straightforward – the new animated emojis is seen first on the WhatsApp Desktop beta and is planned for official release down the line.

While visually it looks just like any other animated sticker feature – it is noted that animated emojis “will be sent by default when the animated version of a certain emoji is available,” meaning that this is in fact based on the emojis found on emoji keyboards, which differs from stickers itself.

Unlike stickers which has a set resolution (meaning it gets blurry when scaled up or zoomed in), these animated emojis will instead use a type of file format called Lottie. In principle it works like SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) but with animations on top of it, which provides virtually infinite sizing while using very little file sizes.

Source: WABetaInfo

Pokdepinion: A quirky feature, but I’d like to see how many variations they can come up with, given the sheer amount of emojis available. 

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