Google recently released the developer preview of the Android O revealing some new features of the upcoming operating system. One of them being the disappearing notifications, which self-dismiss after a certain period of time.
With the new update Google plans to enhance the OS’ design, functionality and upgrading the notification centre. The new feature is dubbed as the ‘notification timeout’.
The new feature will enable notifications to dismiss themselves automatically, if the user hasn’t interacted with them in certain amount of time. This should be quite useful when users receive notifications from games or alerts that are of little importance at a certain moment in time.
Developers will set the timeouts for various notifications and when the countdown ends, the notifications will disappear from the screen. The new Android update aims to bring improvements to the battery life and device’s interactive performance.
Google is testing a new SystemUI Tuner menu for users to change the default lock screen shortcuts to an application or activity of their choice. Android O is expected to roll out this year with Pixel smartphones and will be made available for other smartphones in 2018.
