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- Google introduced Live Updates in Android 16 to standardize real-time progress notifications.
- Live Updates will offer a consistent UI across delivery, rideshare, and navigation apps, even on the lock screen.
- Live updates for Uber and other delivery apps are coming as part of a redesign later this year.
Google is kicking off the Google I/O party with an early focus on Android and its updates through “The Android Show” program. Of course, the big news is Android 16 and the features it will include, and now’s as great a time as ever to re-introduce Live Updates, which will come to several key apps later this year.
Live Updates are a new class of notifications that help users monitor and quickly access important ongoing activities through progress notifications on select apps. Apps like Uber have been showing such notifications for a while now, but they had to implement their own custom workaround. With Live Updates, Google has created a standardized version of such critical notifications.