Android Q is shaping up to be one of the most exciting Android updates we've had in awhile, and more stuff seems to be uncovered every week. The newer betas for Google's latest mobile OS hint at notification assistants, which sounds a little vague but could actually open up one of the best parts of Android even further.
Essentially, Android Q has the framework to allow for third-party notification assistants. There's nothing else available to do that right now besides Google's default notification manager, obviously, but there are some settings to allow users to pick other assistants in the Android Q betas.
Google already has a warning pop-up that lets you know that third-party assistants will be able to read and control your notifications, which makes it sound entirely like Google is opening up a huge part of Android's core to let developers and users really get into tweaking things.
According to developer documentation, this new feature would allow notification assistants to control some aspects of notifications and do things like dismiss or silence them before they ever reach the user. They would also be able to add contextual actions to notifications for things like replies and opening links directly. There's a ton of potential there.
On the other hand, something like this could be a huge permissions nightmare. We'll just have to wait and see what Google has in store for us next week.
source: Computer World
