- We successfully activated Android 16’s Live Updates feature, allowing us to showcase what live notifications will look like.
- Live Updates is a new class of notifications for ongoing activities like rideshare pickups, food delivery alerts, and navigation.
- Live notifications appear prominently on the AOD and lock screen and also show up as chips in the status bar.
Last month, Google confirmed that Android 16 will introduce a new feature called Live Updates. Live Updates are special notifications for ongoing activities like rideshare pickups, food delivery alerts, and navigation. At their core is a new type of notification called a progress-centric notification, which contains a progress bar that advances over time and is optionally split into different segments. Google didn’t share what Live Updates will actually look like, but thanks to some tinkering, I managed to record my own demo of the feature. Here’s your first real look at Live Updates in Android 16.
In a previous post, we revealed that Live Updates may show up as chips in the status bar as well as permanent fixtures on the always-on display. However, in the current Android 16 Beta 2 release, this is not the case, as the Live Updates feature is not yet fully active. While the API to create progress-centric notifications is present in Android 16 Beta 2, the system currently renders these notifications as standard notifications, rather than Live Updates.