First you will need to determine your Android version:
1. Open your device's Settings menu.
2. Scroll down and tap "About device/phone".
3. Find the "Android version" entry.
How to Get Emoji on Android
1. Open any app that starts your keyboard. As long as you are using a Samsung device using Android 4.4 (KitKat) or later, your device will have full emoji support built-in to the default keyboard.
- If your device is running an earlier version of Android, click here.
- Click here for instructions on finding out what version of Android you are running.
2. Press and hold the Microphone or Gear button. This will be located to the left of the space bar.
3. Tap the Smiley-face button that appears in the menu. This will load the emoji keyboard.
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4. Select your emoji. You can change categories by tapping the buttons at the bottom of the keyboard when you are in emoji mode.
5. Tap the "ABC" button to return to your regular keyboard.