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TL;DR
- Android 17 is introducing a new “Metric Style” notification template for Live Updates, expanding the feature to health, fitness, timers, and travel apps.
- The template allows apps to showcase up to three distinct data points simultaneously across the Always-On Display, lock screen, and status bar.
- The notification layout dynamically changes based on the device’s state, shifting between glanceable values, an expanded side-by-side view, and a single-line collapsed view.
Android 16 introduced progress-centric notifications, a new type of notification that displayed progress and milestones in ride-sharing and food-delivery apps. Android 16 QPR1 for Pixels upgraded this to the full Live Updates experience by adding them to the Always On Display, the lock screen, the heads-up display, and as a chip in the status bar. Google has further upgrades coming to Live Updates with Android 17, with a new “Metric Style” notifications template that expands Live Updates to health and fitness apps, timers, and travel app use cases.
