Mobile operating systems have always been a big problem and it is growing as the usefulness of smartphones in our daily lives increases. And this is to properly manage notifications on our small screens. As time goes by, more and more essential apps are on our smartphones. And of course, they don’t hesitate to get our attention periodically. It is no coincidence that the notification panel was redesigned among the novelties of Android 7.0 Nougat.
Despite the many shapes this louvre has taken, we have yet to find its perfect form. With this tutorial, you will have enough knowledge to keep your interface clean by grouping your notifications in a simple, aesthetic, neat and tidy bar. The most maniac among you will be thrilled!
Install Notification Hub
- Android 5.0 Lollipop or higher
For this tutorial, we will use an app that requests certain features that were not accessible prior to Android 5.0 Lollipop. Note that you will definitely not need root privileges to perform the following operations. We will use the Notification Center app to be able to centralize all notifications in one bar. Don’t worry about where it came from because it’s available directly on the Play Store here:
first launch
When you first launch the app, you will have the ability to specify which notifications appear specifically in the new bar that Notification Center will create. This allows you to remove or keep the usual notifications from apps if you wish.
Tick the apps you want to appear only on the Notification Center bar, not on your notification panel. The app will then (naturally) ask you to access your notifications. He’s the one who will deal with these later, so it’s quite natural. Allow yourself to lead and Enable “Notification center” In the “Access notifications” menu.
Second step: the app will ask you to grant access to user data. This allows the app to sort your notifications by importance. Allow yourself to lead Select “Notification Center” and allow access.
Optional final step: You can grant access to the device’s location. We recommend denying this right as the feature is only available in the paid Pro version of the app.
Manage Notification Center
And there you go! You now have a very simple new bar at the top of your notification panel that covers all your apps so that it doesn’t get long and hard to read. When you click on it, you will be taken directly to the application itself.
On the home page of the application, “Time” section Your notifications are sorted by the time you received them. If you want to see more clearly, “Priority” section will highlight messages to be read first. This final section will evolve over time as it learns from the use of your smartphone to determine which notifications should be prioritized for you.
In the app configuration, you can find the list of apps to display privately in this pane by selecting the “Hide notifications in drawer” option.
If you want to identify apps that only appear in regular notification and not in this new bar, there’s “hide notifications from your hub” for that! Never uncheck “Notification summary widget” as this is the notification bar itself!
