Android smilies?

[mistyinca]

while texting to and fro with my sister the other day, I realized that typical smilie texts translate into android smilies on my Incredible. How cute!

So I think the standard posting smilies here at Android Central should be the same.

What do you think?

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

I love it. I'll dig through the AOSP source and attach a zip file of them here, and pass the idea up the ladder.

Edit*
I've attached all the open source Android smileys inside a zip file for anyone who wants to play with em.

 

[Genetic_Bloom]

That'd be awesome if we had the Android ones as smilies here.

 

[Jeremy]

while texting to and fro with my sister the other day, I realized that typical smilie texts translate into android smilies on my Incredible. How cute!

So I think the standard posting smilies here at Android Central should be the same.

What do you think?

That's a good idea actually, I will find out to see if it is possible.

 

[Dieter Bohn]

Let's see if this works...

 

[Dieter Bohn]

a few more

 

[Dieter Bohn]

and the rest

 

[Dieter Bohn]

...may take some time for the images to propagate

 

[Mr Mayor]

Not sure if VBULLETIN forum software works like my IPB forum software, but in mine, we only need to convert the files to GIF's and upload them to the appropriate folder.. It likely works the same here. I've seen plenty of VBulletin forums running smileys other than the default..

My site uses Kolobok almost exclusively.. (If u click link, look in right column for artists and categories)

MM

 

[Mr Mayor]

There ya go! Nice neat and tidy. Kudos fellas.
Nice suggestion Misty.
MM

 

[mistyinca]

Thanks! I see it is now in effect!

 

[Duvi]

Good job guys... Awesome idea mistyinca

 

[dwhitman]

Can I offer a dissenting voice here?

The idea of Andy-based smilies seems good. In practice, these little icons are pretty small and can't hold a lot of information. By the time you use a certain amount of that bandwidth to express "hey, it's an android!", there isn't that much left to actually use for expressing emotions. They're too small, so that (at least to these old eyes) they all look about the same. Which kinds of defeats the purpose.

Bottom line: nice idea, but I like the original, much more expressive smilies. YMMV.

 

[dwhitman]

Hey, did someone take my comment to heart? I notice that this morning we seem to have the best of both worlds:

A subset of the Android smilies that actually do manage to express an emotion pretty well, and a set of old-school smilies to take the place of the one's that were hard to distinguish from similar ones in the Android set.

Hopefully now everyone will be happy!