In a bid to improve the chatting experience, Facebook-owned WhatsApp has rolled out stickers feature to help users share feelings that can't be expressed in words. On its official blog, WhatsApp said, "From emoji and camera features to Status and animated GIFs, we’re always looking to add new features that make communicating with friends and family on WhatsApp easy and fun."

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"Whether with a smiling teacup or a crying broken heart, stickers help you share your feelings in a way that you can't always express with words," it added. 
 
Initially, WhatsApp has introduced sticker packs created by its designers and a selection of stickers from other artists. The chatting app also supports third-party sticker packs that will allow designers and developers around the world to create stickers for WhatsApp. 

Infact, you can create stickers of  your choice for WhatsApp. For this, WhatsApp  has included a set of APIs and interfaces that allows a user to build sticker apps that add stickers to WhatsApp on Android or iOS. 

A user can can publish her/his sticker app like any other app to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. WhatsApp said, "users who download and install your app will be able to start sending those stickers right from within WhatsApp."

How to activate WhatsApp sticker

The new feature is still not available for all android, iphone users. WhatsApp has said that the stickers will be available soon for Android and iPhone, the Facebook-owned company has said. 

Whatsapp stickers download for Jio phone

Jio Phone users may have to wait for long to enjoy the sticker feature. JioPhone is based on KaiOS operating system. WhatsApp has not yet made any announcement about stickers for JioPhone. 

How to create own sticker: 

A user can create the sticker app and publish it like any other app to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. All users who download and install the app will be able to start sending your stickers right away from within WhatsApp. READ MORE

WhatsApp has also provided some sample apps and code for both Android and iOS (https://github.com/WhatsApp/stickers). The sticker must meet these requirements: 

- Each sticker should be an image with a transparent background.
- Stickers should be exactly 512x512 pixels.
- The size of each sticker must be less than 100 KB. 

For tips on reducing the file size of your stickers, see the README files associated with the sample apps.