Android 16 could add a new API that lets apps create Rich Ongoing Notifications, reminiscent of the iPhone’s Dynamic Island.
“Rich Ongoing Notifications”
Translate Google to English:
“Intrusive Unblockable Ads”
Ehh you can block it. You can turn off notifications on apps.
If it’s not the default behavior, the target audience of the ads will not do it.
And much like ad blocking in browsers, if it starts becoming a common behaviour, it will be prevented at all costs.
The feature seems somewhat like Apple’s Dynamic Island on iPhones, though technically Android used status bar chips in the past.
I didn’t know what the islands were but as expected it just an Apple™️ way of naming something done before. Let the cycle continue.
I remember people going crazy about it when Apple introduced it, and then I saw a video of it in action and was like, “is that it?”.
If it worked well it’s really nice. The problem is apps in the background tend to not update it as often as it should. So sometimes I’ll have a weather alert that’s 30 minutes old, along with a notification saying “please open the app for more updated info”.
I thought it was only me who was seeing stale data there. It’s just a persistent notification, but it was marketed beautifully. It seems to have the same problems and benefits of persistent notifications. Sometimes I will get rideshare apps leaving up their notifications long past their usefulness too.
No thanks
Sounds like the return of pop ups.
Innovation for the innovation sake. I don’t ever feel my notification miss anything. Not once.
that’s… not a great argument though… plenty of people didn’t think their phones were missing anything and then the iphone came along
This is actually pretty cool assuming that there’s a permission for this that I can toggle.
Acquiring birds.
Codename starts with letter W.
are we nearing the end of android…?
