Google Test Quick Response Support in Chrome for Android

Google Chrome on Android may soon offer the ability to respond to notifications directly from the status bar. The feature was noted in a Gerrit Chromium by XDA-Developers and is essentially an extension of the Quick Reply feature already available on Android. Quick Reply was born with the introduction of Android 7.0 (Nougat) and acts as an easy way for Android device owners to respond to notifications without having to open an application.

In general, this is more commonly used by messaging applications. the user to tap on a message notification, type the answer and send it. However, this new Chromium Gerrit suggests that the feature might soon be active for notifications received via Chrome, and potentially for any notification. For example, websites are already able to send notifications to Android users and this feature would then allow those users to respond directly to this notification – without having to go through the many clicks that might otherwise be involved. At the moment, it remains to be seen when this feature could be put into service – if it is put into service. As the references found clearly indicate that it is still in a test phase, and before the test phases badociated with the first alpha and beta versions of Chrome, such as Chrome Canary. Therefore, it will still take time to iron and pbad the usual obstacles before it is easily accessible to Android device owners using the main Chrome application. One of the additional hurdles will also support the functionality by the websites. Something that can turn out to be one more wait because support will probably be added slowly on a site basis.

In the meantime, what could become available much sooner is a self-imposed 5 minute load time tabs in the background in Chrome on Android. This has also been detected recently and means that the Chrome app prevents the tabs from loading in the background after five minutes have pbaded. The idea here is to save on data, battery, and also speed up the performance of Chrome for Android in general. Compared to fast response support, load limit support seems to be much lower in the development line, and much closer to delivery.