'Conversation Widget' Is Finally Appearing On Some Devices

Android 12 Beta 2 landed yesterday, and it brought quite a few changes. One of those changes has to exercise with the 'Conversation Widget' feature, every bit information technology's available on some devices with Android 12 Beta ii build.

This feature has been mentioned a lot of times thus far, and XDA Developers even managed to get it running on an earlier build (Android 12 Programmer Preview 3). It wasn't fully functional back then, though.

'Conversation Widget' is appearing for some Pixel users on Android 12 Beta 2

Android Law reports that the feature is now enabled on the Pixel 4 XL, at least for them. It is enabled on both Pixel iv XL units that Android 12 Beta 2 is installed on, which could indicate that other Pixels also have access to information technology.

Y'all can add it the old-fashioned way. Open your widget picker, find the widget, and add it to the dwelling house screen. You'll be taken to the setup page, where you'll need to cull a conversation y'all'd like to add together.

In one case yous choose a conversation, information technology volition exist added to your dwelling house screen. You'll be able to tap the widget in order to open up the conversation in its dedicated app. The widget volition show you the number of waiting notifications beneath your avatar.

You can get message previews as well

Do notation that you tin can get message previews also, only yous'll need to get into the settings, and enable some permissions manually, equally the widget doesn't prompt you to do so. At the moment, information technology works with Slack and Google Letters, plus some other apps, possibly.

Chances are that the widget volition get its total functionality in the Android 12 stable build. It volition likely prompt you to enable permissions, as it doesn't do that at the moment.

Still, it'due south at least functional now, and in that location's a hazard yous tin use it if you installed Android 12 Beta ii on your Pixel device, at to the lowest degree some of you.