Android 16 could add a new API that lets apps create Rich Ongoing Notifications, reminiscent of the iPhone’s Dynamic Island.

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    8 hours ago

    I’m hoping and assuming that apps would need to ask for permission to use this, lest this turn into every app fighting to push their own dynamic island notification to the top bar, just like how back then every app wanted to have its own persistent notification and also that time when every app provided minor status updates using global toasts that didn’t specify which app created it, so you could be doing something in a completely different app and you’d get a completely random and unattributed toast with some vague message like “connection failed” with no way outside of third party apps to figure out which app sent it. /rant