Facebook Messenger For Android Has Hidden Sticker Support, Here's How To Enable It

Facebook has been making numerous changes to its Android apps as of late, thanks to the arrival of Facebook Home. Sometimes, new features also bring "hidden" options – things that may not be quite ready for prime time but can be accessed within the app. Facebook Messenger has one such "feature" tucked away in its emoticon menu: stickers. Big ol' images with goofy faces and cats and other stuff. I'm not entirely sure why this is a thing that anyone wants, but it's there, and you can use these oversized emoticons now. Fun.

  

That's right, Internet – I don't really like cats. What you gonna do about it?

Here's how to find 'em:

1. Enable Chat Heads. (This only works in a popped out Chat Head, it doesn't work in the regular Facebook chat.)
2. Press the tiny invisible area to the left of the "+" button on the bottom left.
3. Bam - stickers.

I had some issues getting stickers to load properly while testing this – a force close/re-open seems to do the trick.

Update: Some users are having a hard time finding the invisible area that needs to be tapped. Here's a shot with the area highlighted:

And that's pretty much it. Enjoy your new fat heads and fat cats. Share them with all your friends.

via DroidSans;