Android N Developer Preview reveals notification shade

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Google is doing even more with the notification shade in the latest version of Android.
It's very (very) early days for Android N, but as we're playing around with the first release of the Developer Preview we're instantly seeing big changes on the horizon. The first and most noticeable is the new notification shade design, which makes big changes to both individual notifications and the quick toggles that we've all been so fond of in Marshmallow.
Knowing that what we see here is very likely to change throughout the process of the Developer Preview being updated, and that what we see here is currently only applicable to Nexus devices, let's dive in and see how notifications are changing with the next version of Android.
First up are the notifications themselves. The base system is quite similar to that of Marshmallow, but a big handful of visual changes add up to quite a different experience. Visually, the notifications now take up the full width of the screen, and are also separated by a thinner line instead of a wide gap — the perceived depth of the cards is dramatically diminished with these two changes.
Though notification bundling was already integrated into previous Android versions, what we have now turns the knob up to 11: notifications can be bundled up tightly with lots of information, and when expanded can be expanded a second time to see individual pieces of data and act on them. As this is a first release of the Developer Preview we only have Google's own apps to go off of here, but Gmail is a great example of this right now — bundling together several messages into just one notification, then letting you expand and act on each.
Of course you still have the ability to expand a single notification to act on it, whether that's sharing an image or replying to a message, and those buttons now draw in some of that visual separation with color you see elsewhere in the notification. Google is hoping to have even more apps use a new API for direct replies from notifications, just as we've seen in some apps like Hangouts today.
Notifications can be expanded and contracted with the standard two-finger swipe gesture, like before, but there are also small expand and contract buttons to the right of the notification subject line, meaning you can get at them quickly with a single tap.

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It's such a simple thing, but the changes in the Android N Developer Preview to the way the quick toggles work are pretty much exactly what Android fans have been asking for as long as Android has been around. This is also one area where Android manufacturers have arguably done a better job than Google itself — now the playing field is a bit more level.

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