The launch of Android 16 may have advanced to coincide with the arrival of the next Pixel mobile phones, but that does not mean that Google developers have not had time to create novelties for the system. In fact, in many ways Android 16 can be more groundbreaking than Android 15in aspects such as notifications.
We already knew that Android was going to get on the car of the ‘live updates’real -time updates that we have already seen in other systems. Specifically, Apple has once again started fashion, with its iOS system that uses this type of updates in the ‘dynamic island’ and on the blocking screen. Some Android mobile manufacturers have created versions of this concept for their customization layers, but they will no longer need them.
Android 16 will premiere its own version of the ‘Live Updates’, which will arrive as A new type of notification that apps can use if they want; In this way, it will be a standardized system that will not depend on the implementation of each brand. With luck, this means that it will be adopted faster by developers, although it is expected that initially only a few do the necessary work to adopt it.
As the name implies, the ‘live updates’ are a new type of notification that can change in real time; That allows them Show information dynamicallyinstead of having to show only a message as until now. In Android Authority they have managed to activate these new notifications in Beta 2 and check how they are for the first time.
It is important to clarify that the new notification system is not yet finished, and that there are no compatible apps; The tests show examples of notifications, but the final result may be different. What seems clear to this filtration is that Google is working on A variety of uses for these notifications.
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The new ‘live updates’ They appear as a ‘pill’ next to the clockin the upper left of the screen; The apps can show messages or indications in this section, and when we click on it, the notification will appear in full and we can read the content.
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In addition, the ‘live updates’ will appear when opening the notification panel, but above conventional notifications; Another important difference, and that gives them away as ‘notifications live’, is that They can show graphics that progress in real time. For example, one of the notifications shows the cooking progress of our order, which will be especially useful for apps such as Just Eats or Uber Eats that show the progress of orders.
Finally, the ‘live updates’ differ from the normal notifications in which They appear completely on the lock screeneven when we have the screen always on. Normally, notifications appear only as icons, but this new guy is able to be completely on the lock screen, so as not to have to unlock the device to see the progress of our order or the song that is sounding, for example.
