In a recent update, SwiftKey gets emoji.(Credit:SwiftKey)
SwiftKey, our favorite Android keyboard, gets an upgrade Thursday which adds two highly-requested features: emoji and a numbers bar. The new features are available in Swiftkey 4.5 beta.
The addition of emoji comes just a few months after Google officially added the tiny digital ideograms to its stock keyboard in Android 4.4. Now, the same icons of food, smiley faces, animals, and more that you'll find in KitKat, are also available in SwiftKey.
You have two options to craft your message with emoji in Swiftkey. First, you can start typing any word, and if there's a relevant emoji match, it will show up as one of the predictions above the keyboard (Swiftkey uses that space to show words it thinks you want based on the letters you're typing). That means if you type "broken" a broken heart will appear, or if you write out "pizza" you'll see a slice. The app learns your typing behavior, so if you often include a specific emoji next to another word, such as typing your significant other's name followed by a heart, SwiftKey will start to show the word and the emoji as one suggestion. If you don't want emoji to pop up in your predictions, you can turn that feature off in settings.
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