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TL;DR
- The Google Play Retailer might quickly obtain a brand new obtain progress notification, permitting customers to simply preserve monitor of app downloads.
- We first noticed the notification in a teardown earlier this 12 months, however Google has since made some enhancements.
- The notification will checklist as much as three not too long ago downloaded apps and video games, and let customers open the apps proper from the notification shade.
The Google Play Retailer is about to obtain a extra useful obtain progress notification, which can enable customers to simply monitor app downloads and launch newly put in apps straight from the notification shade. We first noticed it in a teardown earlier this 12 months, but it surely was nonetheless a piece in progress on the time, with a number of components not functioning as supposed. Google has since made some noticeable enhancements, and we now have a clearer have a look at what might be the ultimate model.
An APK teardown helps predict options that will arrive on a service sooner or later primarily based on work-in-progress code. Nevertheless, it’s potential that such predicted options could not make it to a public launch.
The up to date obtain progress notification nonetheless reveals a most of three not too long ago downloaded apps and video games. Nevertheless, as an alternative of a “See extra” button on the backside, it now states what number of further apps and video games you’ve not too long ago put in. When a obtain is full, the notification now accurately reveals a “Not too long ago put in” label beneath the app identify, as an alternative of exhibiting “0% of 0MB” like earlier than.
Google hasn’t made every other interface adjustments within the present launch (model 46.8.29-31), however the “Open” buttons now perform as supposed. We will additionally affirm that after you open a not too long ago put in app, it’s faraway from the notification. You’ll be able to see it in motion within the video under.
This seems to be the ultimate model of the brand new obtain progress notification, and Google might begin rolling it out to customers with a subsequent Play Retailer replace. We’ll replace this put up as quickly because it’s broadly out there.
