No combined notification+ringer volume control? No non-dismissable notifications? No disabling of the bottom search bar? fair point this is launcher issue What the fuck is that shit?!
I’m all for apps communicating what they are doing with notifications. I’m not interested in an app maintaining persistence merely by having a notification. I understand the notifications are silence-able on a granular level per app. I just prefer the actual pop-up from recent Android that says an app is requesting to do something tasking at all times on my device. If it throws a notification (to tell me what its actually doing), I’m all for that too. If I trust the app: I’ll probably silence that granular notification.
I honestly agree with all mentioned.
I’m just mainly upset at Google for providing no replacement for the memory management situation, since apps like Syncthing and Element can’t reopen themselves once killed by the system, and we as users won’t have any visibility of that when it happens. The persistent notifications aren’t ideal to begin with, honestly would have preferred if they let us “pin” activities instead - or some other approach that has a similar weight compared to persistent notifications
It’s a bit unfair to remove this, enabling Android to close these apps early whenever there’s some memory pressure, due to them not showing anything to the user. With the only documented solution being sending a notification via Google Cloud Messaging to indirectly reopen the app on the device
The background battery usage situation is perfect with the confirmation prompt IMO, but really wish Google would have considered the full app lifecycle instead of just the background battery usage perspective.
