With Lollipop, Google tweaked the notification panel and Quick Settings panel in Android, and it looks like with Android N, the company is all set to give the notification shade a huge makeover once again. The functionality of the panel remains largely the same, though it is getting a huge cosmetic makeover.
Notifications now occupy more part of the notification shade, look sleeker and feature a higher information density. Most importantly though, there is now a dedicated row of toggles present at the top of the notification bar so you no longer need bring down the Quick Settings panel to access the toggles. This is similar to what Samsung and LG have been doing in their handsets, though Google’s implementation is sleeker and uses less space. You can still bring the full Quick Settings panel down by swiping down using a two-finger gesture, which comes with a new sliding animation. Unlike Lollipop, tiles in Quick Settings now occupy almost the entire width, with the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth toggles no longer getting some extra love from Google. The version of Android N that the source of Android Police got to play around with also had pages in Quick Settings, but it is unclear if Google will keep this functionality in the final version of the OS. Additionally, Google will also allow one to edit the tiles being displayed in Quick Settings — an option that other OEMs have been offering through their skins since eons. Google is likely to show off Android N at Google I/O this year, with its release scheduled for sometime in October. Until then though, it is entirely possible that whatever we are seeing above might not make it to the final build of the OS or look completely different from whatever the screenshots above depict.
