If there is one thing you can be sure of to find in a new version of Android now, it’s a new set of emoji. Back with Nougat, Google redesigned the entire set with a more refined version of the gumdrop emoji that it introduced with Android 4.4 and has been altering ever since. The redesign in 7.0 made the facial expressions more in line with what Apple is doing with the iOS emoji set, which is the most popular and commonly used one at the moment.
Android O goes one step further and drops the gumdrop shape entirely in favor of completely round emoji set that look even more like…