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.

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.

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.