Android 8.1 is going to bring with it some notable new features, like the Pixel Visual Core for using HDR+ in third-party camera apps. Today some more big Android 8.1 changes have been confirmed, and they involve emoji.
The new Android 8.1 beta "fixes" the burger emoji that caused waves last month, as spotted by Emojipedia. Previously, the burger emoji in Android shows a cheeseburger with cheese on the bottom, below the patty. This bothered a lot of people and even got a response from Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and now it's been corrected in the latest Android 8.1 beta.
Google has also tweaked the two beer emojis in this Android 8.1 beta. Previously, the emojis showing a single beer and two clicking beers showed glasses that were around half full but had foam coming out of the top, which doesn't really make sense. In the new beer emojis, all of the glasses are full of beer and have foam at the top.
Finally, Google has updated the cheese emoji in Android 8.1. The old emoji shows a line for the cheese's corner going through the holes in the cheese, making it look like the edge was painted on. The new emoji properly shows the edge skipping the holes.
The fact that Google updated these emoji may seem kind of silly, but it's also good to see Google respond to consumer complaints and go through the effort to update its emojis and make them look better. Emojis are a big deal and are used by a lot of people, and with the update to Android 8.1, they'll get some updated emojis that are much improved.
Google has said that Android 8.1 will be released in December.
