If you are one of those who find Facebook Messenger’s “Chat Heads” feature annoying, then you’ll find this news uninteresting. Google is planning to bring a new feature to Android 10 known as “Bubbles” which would make it easier for app developers to push more visible notifications directly on top of the user’s display. The thing is, the feature is similar to the chat heads that can be found on Facebook Messenger.
The feature is said to have been rolled out on Android 10 Beta 2 for the Pixel devices earlier in April this year. Unfortunately, the feature didn’t make it to the stable version of Android 10. But the folks at XDA Developers were able to manually enable the Android Message Bubbles and they did post some screenshots of the features in action.
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The feature brings up a floating notification bubble for ongoing conversations. The bubble notification system is expected to completely replace the overlay API in a future release of Android. As of now, the Bubbles API is in development and Android 10 users can manually enable it from within the Developer Options (Settings > Developer Options > Bubbles).
However, there isn’t any noticeable difference between this feature and Facebook’s Chat Heads which many persons probably had to disable on their phones. You can drag and place the floating bubble to other parts of the screen, or you can drag it to the bottom to dismiss it just like Facebook’s. Thankfully, the Bubbles system also comes with an option to disable it.
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