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Emoji (Unicode 9.0) - WhatsApp vs GBoard

Currently when using WhatsApp I don't have access to the new set of emojis that were released last year. When people send them to me in WhatsApp they're rendered as GBoard emojis plus extra noise like squares and women symbols.
If I use the GBoard emoji settings I can send them but they're rendered as the Google versions and not the WhatsApp ones, and even when sent as a single emoji WhatsApp doesn't enlarge it like it does the ones available from within the app when tapping the smiley face icon to the left of the text entry box.
WhatsApp have said that this is nothing to do with them, it's all down to the phone. Is this correct? The phone seems to have the ability to display them through GBoard but I'm wondering why not through WhatsApp as native apps. Is there a way to get the Unicode 9.0 characters into WhatsApp without rooting my phone?
Thanks.

whatsapp just rolled out a beta update through the play store , including new emojis and updating (some? i don't think they reworked everything) existing ones
Is there a way to get the Unicode 9.0 characters into WhatsApp without rooting my phone?
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wait for whatsapp to include their take on the emojis as they're not using apple's? anymore

Custom App Notification Sounds

I have been having problems setting custom notification sounds for some apps, but haven't really looked too much into it until now. What I have found is that apparently from Oreo stock Android allows you to change app notification sounds, and other notification settings, from within the Android system settings (Settings > Apps and notifications). This then makes it unnecessary for apps to accommodate these sound settings from within the apps themselves like they used to. Of course many Google first party apps, such as Messages and Gmail, have adopted this new method for managing notifications. However, it would appear that Honor/Huawei in EMUI 8 have stripped out the option to change the sound from within the app notification settings screen. The result appears to be that we are unable to set app specific notification sounds for many Google apps and any other 3rd party apps that have embraced this change in Oreo. Instead these just use the system wide default notification sound.
I am not aware of any official Honor or Huawei community where we can log bugs or change requests. So how do we make them aware that this is an issue that we care about?
I presume that this hasn't already been fixed on newer devices running 8.1?
It would be really good if someone could prove me wrong. Is there some other way that we can set custom tones on an app by app basis?
Thanks.
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Yup. This bugs me since I got my View 10... The function in Android Oreo is called Notification channels. EMUI supports them and shows these channels in the settings but option to change sound is for some reason missing.
There are couple of screenshots how function is supposed to look in this article: https://www.androidcentral.com/notification-channels
I wrote message to huawei's support (I think I found form on hihonor website?) and they didn't reply anything particulary useful ("you can change sounds in whatsapp!" - yeah, because it doesn't use these channels for sounds) but at least they promised they forward my "tips for improvement" to higher department, whatever that means.

How set Gmail custom ringtone in MIUI 10 Android Pie

how can i set custom ringtone in gmail with android 9 pie!????!?!

It looks like this function was removed in the most recent beta. The sound selection for all apps is removed outside of settings.

This is not a feature MIUI allows. Unlock bootloader, install custom ROM is the only option, unless they release a version with the options allowed.
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Or try Notificon or Message Notifier Pro from PlayStore

App icon badges

Hi everyone, I haven't found thread on this or maybe I missed it. I'm currently using Mate 20 Lite and thinking of buying P30. I've set up everything I had to regarding notifications, battery,.. but I still don't get numbered icon badges on snapchat, gmail and few others. I know that they are not somehow officially supported and I would like to know are they working on the P30 because I use a lot of apps and I need to see almost every notification so if someone who uses these apps the same way I do, please post a screenshot. Thank you...

Android 11, Messages Chat Bubble

I have a Pixel 3a, and I updated to Android 11 yesterday (official release) OTA update. My phone is completely stock with Developer mode enabled. I noticed that in the notifications for Messages I do not have the option to break it out into the chat bubble (similar to Facebook Messenger). I verified in the notifications settings that I have All conversations can bubble. I am running Google Messages 6.4.044. Has anyone else run into this yet?
Thank you!

I have bubbles enabled and I don't see the option to make text msgs turn into bubbles either. Neither does FB Messenger show the option.
On top of that, everytime I click on the search bar of any Google app, a small text bubble appears which says "null". Weird a** bugs
Edit: Installing Messages Beta fixed the issue for me. It enables bubbles.

Temp1234X said:
I have bubbles enabled and I don't see the option to make text msgs turn into bubbles either. Neither does FB Messenger show the option.
On top of that, everytime I click on the search bar of any Google app, a small text bubble appears which says "null". Weird a** bugs
Edit: Installing Messages Beta fixed the issue for me. It enables bubbles.
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Thank you! If the beta is stable, I'll go that route.

Hi,
Same issue for me regarding bubbles with message and whatsapp.

Bubbles are disabled by default (Messages) or only for selected chats (FB Messenger). So you have to enable first by yourself. Everything is working fine here if enabled properly in the settings.

Bubbles are allowed on my p3a, but I don't see them. I've just installed Messages Bêta and same issue [emoji53]
Edit: precisely I have small bubbles at the top of the screen (as notifications used to be previously but different colors) and I'm unable to move them on the screen and to keep them active (like fb messenger)

For those who have the issue, you're not alone
There is a 400+ posts thread on google assistance forum.
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/69921753?hl=en

Bubbles seem to work fine for Telegram, Google Messages after upgrade to beta and the easter egg cat.
However FB messenger and WhatsApp notifications show no bubble activation icon.