Important points
- A new chip notification system has been discovered in the Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 code.
- Although it’s not official, what we’ve seen is similar to what we’ve seen with the iPhone’s Dynamic Island.
- Android 16 could arrive in Q2 2025 and could be the most secure OS version.
We’re still looking at the release of Android 15 on Pixels, and now we’re already getting more news about what to expect in Android 16. It’s still a little ways off, but it could be here much sooner than you. There is some speculation that it could arrive as early as the second quarter of 2025. Of course, we can’t wait for Android 16 to debut, as we’ve heard that it could be the most secure version of the OS ever. .
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Additionally, Google may also implement some interesting changes, such as allowing users to bubble all apps for easy access. There are even rumors that it might implement a new notification system inspired by Apple’s Dynamic Island. There have been many requests for a long time for OEMs to copy this feature and bring it to Android in an elegant way, but we have yet to see this feature arrive on a Samsung, OnePlus, or Google phone. Never.
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Source: Android Authority
Android expert Mishaal Rahman has been combing through the code of the latest Android 15 QPR1 Beta 3 release to find clues about what future Android releases will offer. In his latest report to Android Authority, he revealed new chip notifications that are part of the new Rich Ongoing Notifications API. This displays notifications in the status bar and provides a new way to view notifications on Android.
Rahman shares that this is not something everyone can see and that he is tinkering with the code to make it work. By doing this, Rahman can show what the notifications for this new chip will look like when implemented in the future. As you can see in the image above, it looks a bit like the dynamic island notifications commonly seen on modern iPhones.
Of course, this is still an incomplete version of the chip, so it’s not exactly the same. This looks promising, but it’s unclear whether this will lead to a live release on Android. But what will really make this feature popular is the adoption of new APIs by app developers. Without this, it’s not really worth talking about, much like what happened when Apple’s Dynamic Island was first released.
Again, it’ll be interesting to see how this develops, and it might even end up looking completely different when released. But we’re sure we’ll hear more about this feature in the future as we get closer to the official release of Android 16. Rahman says he believes this will be part of a future update since the API is already “tied” to Android 15.
