Does your phone get bombarded with various notifications throughout day and night? Scared of missing out on important events or updates from your crucial apps? Android notifications have come a long way from being just a simple text to expanded layouts, customization, notification badges and a high level of user control. Most important, Notifications are now grouped into channels which allows you to control and customize the kind of notifications you want to receive as a user. With Android P, there has been a significant revamp of the notification panel.

In this talk, you'll learn about:
- Evolution of different kinds of notifications: Basic notification, Expandables, Heads up Notification, notifications with actions, badges
- Notification channel: What, how and management
- Notification Importance and their outcome
- Quick Demo of how to create notifications from your app
- A detailed dive into the notification features introduced with Android P like Background App Notification, Smart replies etc.

At the end, you will walk away with a deep insight into the world of these everyday knock knocks in your phone's status bar, that notify you of important happenings

Presenting this tech talk at Droidcon London 2018, Valley Dev fest in Fresno