[Android Themes] Link_of_Hyrule:
This theme allows you to have the fonts from the Android N Preview 3 including the emoji! As long as you are using the newest Google keyboard you should be able to both see and send all the new emoji including long holding on the people to change their skin tone. I will do my best to keep this updated when there are new emoji added if it's possible for me to do so. This will only work with Cyanogen OS 13 or later or a rom that supports the Cyanogen Theme Engine. Feel free to try it on older versions but people have told me it doesn't work for them. This will work on stock locked devices that have Cyanogen OS 13 or later on them no root is required to use it on those devices.

You can find a list of all the emoji this font supports HERE.

APK and Source Code for those that want it: https://mega.nz/#F!ikNGxDhb!jzm4W4NuHE8VFILZkJbhDw

Git for the original Theme project I used (includes compile instructions): Cyanogen Theme Template Source

Change Log:

7/3/2016: Updated to Android N Preview 4.

6/10/2016 - Updated to use the fonts from the Android N Preview 3. Note: I'm not actually sure if anything changed with this but I wanted to do it anyways just in case. If you're using the Google Keyboard as far as I know you can send almost all the new emoji as they are listed please feel free to tell me which ones are missing from they keyboard if I am wrong.

All credit goes to whoever made the theme template and Google for the fonts.

Bugs: For some reason a few of the emoji are displayed as their black and white versions some of which are duplicates I'm not really sure what causes this and since I'm not actually modifying anything on the system I have no way to correct it. These include but are not limited to the writing hand, pointing up finger with thumb in, hard hat man (duplicate), skull (duplicate), Umbrella without rain, thunderstorm cloud, umbrella on beach, snowman with snow, meteor, skier, basketball guy, random box, letter (duplicate), short pencil, pen tip, a few others I'm too lazy to list but that no one cares about.

Missing Emoji: For some reason the shaking hands emoji seems to be missing. There could be more if there are post them in this thread and I'll add them to the list.

Old Post text:

So this is the second time that Google has updated the color emoji font on Android recently and I was wondering if there is a way to create a theme that simply replaces the color emoji font with the new one so that you can have the new emoji on the device and view them without having to actually flash anything or even be rooted (since themes work on both CyanogenMod and Cyanogen OS devices without root). Someone posted this flashable zip here however, I don't think we really need to actually include all those files unless they were updated to include emoji I think the main emoji font is in NotoColorEmoji you may have to edit the fallback files or something but I'm not sure. I know that other people have replaced some fonts before but I'm not sure if it works with the color emoji font I would think that it would, however. In addition to the standard updated Google Emoji you could create custom emoji packages (ios or whatever you wanted).

After finding a template to create a CM13 theme it was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be and I ended up doing it myself I included all the Android N fonts that were in the flashable zip. I have not verified if having different skin tones for emoji works or not I couldn't figure out how to send one with a skin tone to test it. Skin tones work with the latest Google Keyboard installed.