Yesterday, towards the end of the afternoon in Europe, Google revealed the big changes that reach the Android ecosystem. Android 16 will present an important overhaul of its interface, will bring Wear OS 6 to watches and Gemini to all devices. Among the new features of the new version of the operating system, the one that the iPhone has obtained before.
These are the “live updates” (Live updates), a type of notification focused on monitoring the delivery of an order. Google showed it timidly yesterday for the distribution of food at home, in a crossover with Uber Eats. Something delay happens, but it is never too late if joy is good.
Android looks at iOS to follow your pizza
The Google party was just a prelude to what will happen next week at Google I / O 2025, but it was enough for a glance, to know the next to reach the operating system of the green robot. The big news is the overhaul with expressive equipment, But Android 16 brings more news.
This is what live updates on the AOD screen
One of them is these “live updates” (or live), a kind of notifications which follow the delivery processes, useful when we expect a package or simply to a food distribution at home. These “live updates” will require applications to adapt: In the demonstration, Uber Eats was already working with them.
In fact, they can be tested from the beginnings of Android 16 Beta 1, and yesterday Google showed what they would look like in the final version. Therefore, since the first week of June (date confirmed), they will be available. How do these new notifications behave? Apparently, they seem very intuitive.
They will appear on the locking screen, also in the AOD mode (always active screen) and a key will be sufficient to extend it. Of course, in the notification curtain, they will be like the others, and it is that Its particularity is that it shows a progression bar divided into steps.
They have A different vision of the rest of the notificationsActivable from the status icon: by pressing, it will appear in a small box with rounded corners, at the top of the screen.
Live updates in the notification curtain
In this way, “live updates” will avoid having to access the main application, knowing details on delivery in a simple look. For the moment, this type of notifications They are limited to delivery applications, shared trips and navigation (Google Maps aims to support them).
Currently, they seem much more polite compared to those shown during the first beta version of Android 16. Soon, they will reach all users who will receive the version, unlike the overhaul with the equipment 3Who, according to Google, must wait a few more months. Presumably, we will see it on Android 16 QPR1, developing the version of the first quarterly pixel update.
In Xataka Android | A ship without capacity to change the course: Sony has all the figures to follow the stages of LG in the mobile world
In Xataka Android | Apple dreamed with a brilliant future for the iPhone and Google AI advanced Android. Gemini blow approach
