Google responded
with Rich Notifications, allowing you to interact in various ways with new incoming messages.
Not exact matches
Users
with an Apple Watch will continue to enjoy a great Instagram experience through various
rich and varied
notifications.»
The
notifications tray is seeing a pretty major overhaul, too,
with expanded Gmail
notifications that include a
richer preview of unread messages, while also giving you access to more options without needing to open the relevant app.
Users who aren't familiar
with Lollipop will appreciate its clean, «material» design and
rich notification area.
In most cases, offering an Apple Watch app can enable support for much
richer notifications on Apple Watch if nothing else (which will go away for Instagram
with today's update).
In short,
notifications are going to get a lot more feature -
rich later this summer
with bigger images, more options, more information, and just a more immersive experience.
There will be a new updated user - interface
with adaptive toast
notifications to bring more engagement
with large images and more content, and there will be widgets
with richer information.
Interactive toast
notifications now reflect the
rich information displayed on Live Tiles giving users a more consistent user capability along
with more detailed
notifications.
Mostly, it's the same kind of interaction you'd get from a
rich notification on your Android phone, making it so you don't have to unlock your phone and engage
with the app directly.
Other notable Android P features / tools include:
rich messaging
notifications that highlight who is messaging, shows full conversations, and allows attachments of photos and stickers and even suggested smart replies; and the ability for developers to take advantage of indoor positioning in their apps so that they can track users indoors -
with permissions - using a technology called Wi - Fi Round - Trip Time (RTT).
Visual changes to
Notifications: We're making Action Center richer with support for notifications with more flexible layouts similar to the richness o
Notifications: We're making Action Center
richer with support for
notifications with more flexible layouts similar to the richness o
notifications with more flexible layouts similar to the richness of Live Tiles.
«Because Android for wearables works
with Android's
rich notification system, many apps will already work well.
Taking a quick overview of the iOS 10 features, it has a redesigned lock screen,
rich notifications, as well as quick interaction
with apps and expanded 3D Touch.
It operates like a smartwatch, allowing the wearer to easily tell the time and receive basic
notifications such as calls and texts, but if you expect the device to be as feature -
rich as the Apple Watch, or an Android Wear device, you'll be very disappointed
with Fitbit's latest wearable.
It also has a new home screen launcher
with clever tweaks like auto - arrange, a smarter and more feature -
rich notification drawer, and offline voice typing.
Furthermore, the
notifications can have a more flexible layout
with richer information and bigger images.
With the Nougat update, the device now includes new features like split screen multitasking, new animations,
rich notification, and few other changes.
These future toast
notifications will show more relevant information, and
with bigger images, new button styles, better discoverability, and other improvements, they will offer a
richer user experience.
You can also expect to see widgets and tiles in the Action Center, allowing developers to deliver
notifications with a much more
rich set of information.
Google claims that Android Wear works
with Android's
rich notification system, so «many apps will already work well.»