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It's almost like the author has never used android, seeing as android notifications don't have any of the problems described. Notifications show up in a part o
by Qz 16y ago
It's almost like the author has never used android, seeing as android notifications don't have any of the problems described. Notifications show up in a part of the UI you constantly look at but can't actually interact with (the status bar at the top), therefore you always notice when there are notifications but it doesn't really get in your way. You can see all notifications at once by swiping down from the status bar which drops the notification screen in over whatever you were doing, showing all the notifications at once. Because of this, you can have a clear all button. If you don't want to deal with a notification right away, you can just swipe back up and go back to whatever you were doing. Doesn't seem quite so difficult.
- drivebyacct2 16y agoI agree, and CM's modifications allow for single notification dismissal with a swipe gesture. I have no idea at all how I would improve Android notifications, certainly not after seeing the more interactive Honeycomb variety.
- jsz0 16y agoThere's room for improvement in Android's notification system. I get serious notification fatigue with Android. I see that there are 5 or 6 tiny indistinguishable icons up there but I have to pull down the tray to get any useful information. In this sense it's more like an Inbox than a notification system to me. It also treats all notifications equally. To me a missed phone call is a lot more important than application updates. I would prefer to get the higher priority notifications (voicemail, SMS, etc) pushed at me more aggressively. Ideally show them on the lock screen like WebOS does so you don't have to unlock the device and goto the notification tray to check manually. There's also the problem of third party apps using the notification tray for SPAM which I do not care for one bit.
- seabee 16y agoHTC Sense shows missed call & SMS notifications on the lock screen. I've found it to be an ideal notification experience, personally. Spam is a problem best solved by removing the offending app. It's not like they can't do worse things to your phone (unless you're one of the few who pay attention to that permissions screen).
- thwarted 16y agoI would prefer to get the higher priority notifications (voicemail, SMS, etc) pushed at me more aggressively. Your example "higher priority" notifications are two that I care the least about. I rarely use my phone for actually talking to people, and I don't listen to voicemail, so those I don't care about. I do care that I missed a call however -- who it was that called is much more important than the message they left. I also get so many text messages, they need to be ranked in importance by who sent it, not that it's a text message. But setting up priorities based on sender is a lot of work, so I wouldn't do it. Maybe if it worked like gmail's priority inbox.