Check Out Android 12's Upcoming 'Conversation Widget'

Android 12 Developer Preview 1 launched quite recently, and it revealed a lot of details at first. Equally days go by, more than and more details proceed on surfacing, every bit Android developers are excavation through the code. The latest such feature that we get more information near is Android 12'southward 'Conversation Widget'.

This is non the outset time we're hearing about this feature. It was shown in a leaked document before Android 12 Developer Preview i dropped. It is 1 of the most interesting new features coming with Android 12, that's for sure.

Android 12's Conversation Widget uncovered in Developer Preview i

Kieron Quinn, i of XDA'due south recognized developers, managed to give us the very start real look at Android 12's Chat Widget. Android 12's Conversation Widgets will highlight contempo messages, missed calls, or activity statuses for contacts y'all choose.

This widget is contained within Android's SystemUI application, and is planned to be a mandatory feature for all Android 12 devices. Equally with many other features in Android 12 Developer Preview 1, information technology is currently not functional, but the aforementioned developer managed to get it working, kind of.

This feature is currently called 'People Space', as information technology's still in development. If you take a await at the images below, you'll see the Conversation Widget in the widgets list (under a different name), and also in action on the home screen.

The developer managed to become information technology working, well, kind of

In this case, the Conversation Widget shows the concluding bulletin from the Google Messages app for a specific contact. Unfortunately, this widget does non currently show the actual content of the message. It also does not work with other apps that the developer tried (Facebook Messages and WhatsApp).

Speaking of widgets, Google is as well working on iOS-like widget stacks for Android 12. Both of those features volition probable see the light of day in the Android 12 stable build later on this twelvemonth.

Google plans to release several more than developer previews and beta builds before a stable build arrives. I affair is for sure, Android 12 will be quite a alter, and we already see that many news features are coming.