The Android 11 developer preview is here and, as usual, loaded with news. Several of them focus on notifications, especially in messaging app notifications, which Google has called "chatbots."
Android 11 handles notifications differently depending on whether they are conversational or not, add some additional skills to the notifications. Some are not yet available in this first beta, but others are available as chat bubbles.
The bubbles come
Notification bubbles are brought to test in Android 10 no Android 11 is now available there is no need to execute tricks or install ADB commands. Yes, they do not apply to all notifications, but only to those that are deemed to be conversations.
Google explains that conversations Real time, two-way communication with two or more people (that is, it doesn't work with a bot). That is, basically notifications for messages from messaging apps, other than bot messages.
These types of notifications get a different menu option on Android 11, currently in four related ways. The first is Show as a bubble. You tap on it and the notification becomes a bubble like it did, for example, on Facebook Messenger.
The configuration is independent of each notification, so you can use it for some contacts and not for others. Android will remember what you're in for and the following messages from a contact that you have selected as a bubble, will open the bubble.
Touching a wizard shows the app in a floating window, so you can check the conversation and respond. This requires the app to be properly configured for display in a floating window.
Auto-undo
It's probably a tradition that Google has wrapped us with a drop-down menu with each new version of Android. Android 11 Developer Preview, the undo button does not appear automatically to standard notifications. Only shown in chat notifications, when you click on its settings. And it doesn't work very well: touching it doesn't show how much the notification was sent, and you can't cancel it.
However, the drop-down menu is not dead, but it will be. From Settings for Android> Notifications, you can activate the option Let notifications be undone. In doing so, the undo button returns to all notifications, whether they are chat or not.
Pressing this button if you cannot undo the changes, and select the time when the notification will appear again. You can choose between 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour (default option) or 2 hours.
Lots of changes along the way
No doubt there will be many changes in notifications from here to the final launch of Android 11. To begin with, Google has already warned that they have great plans for discussion notifications. This will add this functionality in the future: