You want to reply back with a semi-nonsensical emoji message of your own but... how the heck do you get the emoji keyboard on your mobile device in the first place? iOS Emoji Keyboard.

Step 2: Turn on the emoji keyboard Even if your Android device supports emojis, your default keyboard may not include them.

Any phone running Android 4.3 can only display black-and-white emojis via the iWnn IME keyboard, but you can download a third-party keyboard for the more familiar color emoji characters.

To enable SwiftKey and make it your default keyboard on stock Android, head to settings, select Language & input, and choose SwiftKey from the list of options.

This guide explains how to use the new Android emoji that were added with the update to Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. Get started today.

Google has made several commits to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). The changes - which have not been merged yet - indicate that the company is looking to decouple emojis from system updates.