Which virtual keyboard app introduced Emoji Kitchen in 2020? Gboard introduced Emoji Kitchen in 2020.
Gboard is Google’s virtual keyboard for Android and iOS. Emoji Kitchen lets users combine two supported emoji into a new sticker-like mashup, such as blending expressions, animals, foods, or objects. The results can be inserted into chats as images rather than sent as standard Unicode emoji.
The feature first appeared in Gboard in 2020 and expanded over time to support more combinations and additional emoji. A common mix-up is confusing Emoji Kitchen with ordinary emoji suggestions: regular suggestions recommend existing characters, while Emoji Kitchen creates custom combinations. It is also different from a phone’s built-in emoji keyboard, because the mashups are a Gboard feature.
Gboard itself launched in 2016 as the successor to Google Keyboard. Besides Emoji Kitchen, it offers glide typing, multilingual input, GIF search, stickers, voice typing, and other text-entry tools. Availability of particular mashups can vary by platform, language, app, and software version.