Pop-up notification
The pop-up notification (or toast, passive pop-up, snackbar, desktop notification, notification bubble, or simply notification) is a
On mobile devices, a
Support on different systems
In
Desktop notifications are a proposed standard for freedesktop.org,[3] but all the major desktop environments running on the X Window System already support this standard, making them typically available on Linux and other Unix-like systems. Google adopted the concepts of notification drawer[4] and toast popup messages[5] for user notifications as basic components of its Android operating system.
As of 10.8 Mountain Lion,
Capabilities
While passive pop-ups do not require any user interaction, some implementations still provide a way for the user to optionally interact with the pop-up. This is called actions.[citation needed] For the Freedesktop specification, this is an optional feature that clients cannot rely on, and its use is discouraged by some design guidelines.[7]
Android adds the ability to provide actions with Jelly Bean.[8]
In the Material Design language
Google's Material Design introduced the term snackbar to refer to a user-interface element displaying a temporary, closable notification:
Snackbars inform users of a process that an app has performed or will perform. They appear temporarily, towards the bottom of the screen. They shouldn’t interrupt the user experience, and they don’t require user input to disappear.[9]
External links
References
- ^ "Notifications". Microsoft. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- ^ "Understanding Microsoft Push Notifications for Windows Phones". Microsoft. 3 May 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
- ^ Galago.
- ^ "Notifications". Android Developers. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- ^ "Creating Toast Notifications". Android Developers. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
- ^ List of applications supporting Growl.
- ^ Ubuntu notification development guidelines.
- ^ Android notifications guidelines.
- ^ "Snackbars". material.io. Retrieved 7 May 2020.