Ok, so they don't want to add icons to the notification bar, which seems like a good place for them. So instead of just adding an icons or an icon row to the navigation bar, like Windows does, they ...

Google introduced “bubbles” as a means of keeping messaging apps easily accessible by letting them float on top of other apps. In future versions of Android, it sounds like Google may make these a lot ...

The notification drawer on Android can be both useful and distracting because of the sheer number of notifications that come in. You have to manage per-app notifications better through settings or set ...

Android 16 officially rolled out a few weeks ago, and in addition to enhanced protection and productivity enhancements, the latest OS introduced several changes to how notifications are received. If ...

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Wow those bubbles look annoying as hell. The FB messenger chat heads certainly were (when I still used FB). The scoped storage is indeed very worrying though.. Indeed the more open security model of ...