What it’s good to know
- A discovery in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 reveals Google is engaged on including “wealthy ongoing notifications.”
- The function is just like Apple’s Dynamic Island or OnePlus’ variant as “ongoing notifications” would occupy a chip beside a person’s clock within the standing bar.
- Extra in-depth data was unknown; nevertheless, this function may debut with Android 16.
Google dropped its newest Android 15 QPR1 beta for testers and there are clues within the code about upcoming options.
In a put up by Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority), Google is reportedly engaged on a brand new model of alerts titled “wealthy ongoing notifications.” Rahman states this can be a new API, however there’s little else to grasp about it. What was simply recognized from the newest Android 15 QPR beta is the design Google may chase. Supposedly, this API will give app creators company over the colour and extra for this constant, “ongoing” notification chip beside a tool’s clock.
The chip’s location mirrors the place customers can at the moment discover app notification icons or telephone calls on Android as we speak. Furthermore, it solely appears to occupy that house between the clock and your telephone’s punch-hole selfie digicam. It is not fully like Apple’s Dynamic Island, nevertheless it’s reminiscent.
It is also unclear what apps Google plans to assist with this “ongoing notification” function. Rahman was in a position to leverage the code and pressure a number of apps to seem within the standing bar. From his examples, if a meals order was on the way in which from Uber, it appears the chip would present the app’s brand alongside an estimated time for pickup/supply. The instance included one for air journey, exhibiting the corporate’s brand and whenever you’d must board.
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Rahman speculates that tapping on this ongoing notification chip may produce “some type of dialog offered by the app.” The dialogue may embody details about the chip’s show or one thing else fully. So much remains to be left unsure, particularly contemplating it was found within the Android 15 QPR1 beta. Furthermore, Rahman would not suspect this may debut in December with the anticipated function drop.
Rahman claims this might arrive for customers throughout Android 16’s launch. What’s extra, we have seen a chip just like Google’s concept through OxygenOS 14 by OnePlus. The aim of it was to offer customers glanceable, up-to-date data for whichever app occupied the house. Tapping it will increase it right into a rounded nook field, however didn’t devour the selfie digicam like Apple’s model.
Talking of Android 16, it appears Google is making ready to introduce a brand new function referred to as “Modes” to interchange the fabled DND (don’t disturb). By these “modes,” the current beta confirmed customers can create completely different variations, every containing particular system conduct. Choices seen recommend customers can create a novel icon, identify, and activation set off. As soon as enabled, this DND variant will likely be displayed within the standing bar beside your connectivity icons.
This alteration to DND was beforehand noticed in one other beta, however referred to as “Precedence Modes.”
Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 arrived for enrolled Pixel testers yesterday (Oct 25). The replace was full of a great deal of fixes for reported system crashes and a display downside with its foldables.