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Tl; DR
- The Samsung IU 8 will improve its live notifications functionality by adopting the new “Live updates” API of Android 16 for a wider treatment of third -party applications.
- This new API allows any application to create live and current notifications, a major improvement compared to the previous version limited to Samsung applications mainly among the first.
- The functionality is currently available in the beta version of the UI 8 behind a developer flag, but should be activated for everyone in the stable final version.
When Samsung released a user interface 7 earlier this year, he introduced live notifications, his point of view on Apple’s live activities. These notifications make current activities more visible on the locking screen and the notification panel, but they were launched with a major drawback: only a handful of applications, mainly from Samsung itself, could create them. This changes in the next UI 8 update.
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Given that a user interface 8 is based on Android 16, it can take advantage of a new underlying feature called “live updates”, which offers features similar to live notifications but can be used by any third party application. Thanks to the latest beta version, we already have an overview of what it will be like in action.
At Google I / S, Google has confirmed that Samsung would integrate live updates into its bar now alongside live notifications. The company has even shared a short animation showing what a Uber notification is like when it is extended from the bar now.
After the release of One UI 8 Beta 3, my colleague Zachary Kew-Denniss spotted a new developer option called “Live notifications for all applications.“”
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After having tilted it, the live updates of compatible applications began to appear in the status bar of a user interface and now bar Like Live Notifications. Currently, there are no applications accessible to the public that support live updates, so I had to use Google Example of application To test the functionality.
Since this is a beta version, we are not surprised to see the support of the live updates locked behind a developer option. However, we would be surprised that this remains the case when the stable version of One UI 8 deploys. After all, Google has already confirmed that Samsung will support live updates, so it would be strange to ask users to reverse a developer switch so that the functionality works as expected.
