Those of us who were lucky enough to witness the rise of text messaging know how far we’ve come in the last decade. We’ve gone from creating facial expressions from keyboard characters — Emoticons — to sending high-resolution Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) clips, and we couldn’t be more grateful.
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A GIF can be a still image or a funky animation, but its palette is limited to 8 bits per pixel, which results in a maximum of 256 colors. A palette of 256 colors may not seem like much, but it's usually enough for simple logos and animations.
Those little animated clips have become the most liberating form of expression for many users, and leading developers have taken notice. Google’s Gboard, Samsung Keyboard, and Swiftkey all have dedicated GIF shortcuts. And in this piece, we’ll do our best to introduce you to each of them so you never run out of quirky answers and clever icebreakers.
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