WhatsApp has been doing a lot of work towards making the user experience more entertaining, so for example it added fun avatars (pictured above) at the end of last year and it's been making ongoing tweaks to the user interface and feature list. And it looks like we're about to get another fun new feature: animated emoji.
We've heard that this one is in development from multiple rumours, and the latest one adds fuel to the rumour machine because there's evidence to back it up. According to the beta watchers at WABetaInfo.com, WhatsApp is using the Lottie library in beta versions of its desktop app, and presumably in its phone apps too. Lottie is a library for Windows, iOS, Android and websites that handles animations, and that enables you to scale them up and down without them becoming all boxy and pixelated. Perfect for animated emoji.
