WhatsApp is developing animated emojis by using the Lottie library. The feature was spotted during the development of WhatsApp beta for Desktop and will come to both iOS and Android
Animated emojis will be sent by default when the animated version of a certain emoji is available so users may not have control over turning off the animation.
These animated emojis are designed by using Lottie, an optimized library that lets designers easily create animations: these animations are small in size, and it is possible to change their proportions without losing quality.
