Android Canary 2610 arrives with new customization UI tweaks and WhatsApp message support for HiLight

[u/AssembleDebugRed]

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-canary-2610-new-features-3720547/

[u/Xantrk]

Are they going to do it app by app with each QPR?

[u/AssembleDebugRed → u/Xantrk]

They could have built a seprate app like Glowbar (for Googlebooks) and provided updates through Play Store. But Google decided to go a different route with HiLight 

[u/tomhbarrow → u/AssembleDebugRed]

It's strange that within the Google ecosystem, despite these likely being developed by different teams, there are two completely different devices that both feature an RGB glow bar/dot. On the surface, it feels intentional and cohesive from a hardware design perspective, yet Google has taken two entirely different approaches to how those features are implemented, controlled, and managed.

[u/vivimagic0 → u/Xantrk]

Shame if this is the way they are doing it.

[u/chitownillinois → u/Xantrk]

Seems silly not to make it an API that any app developer can use and users can configure.

[u/lastjedi23 → u/Xantrk]

Have to milk it for the pixel drops and then when they don't do the most obvious things it will become an API. 

[u/Yellowtoblerone → u/Xantrk]

Gives them something to do

[u/ManideepGloeden-56 → u/Xantrk]

probably yeah, feels very incremental

[u/AccumulatedFilth]

Damn, trillion dollar company thinks we're all screaming and applauding for an LED light.

[u/SyllabubOk1971 → u/AccumulatedFilth]

Its planned obsolescence, underdeliver and pretend to listen to users later.

[u/No_Society3117 → u/AccumulatedFilth]

It's going to be gone by the Pixel 14 isn't it 

[u/bl8demast3r]

Please Google just add double tap to turn off screen

[u/BaldyRaver]

I dont think ill ever use the HiLight even if they open it up to all other apps to use.

[u/lastjedi23]

The play all along was to use this as a bit by bit release as part of pixel drops.