Notifications peeking option

[_psycho]

Hello!

So this problem isn't only with my Xperia Z5 Dual, it was also on my old Xperia Z, the notifications peeking/heads up doesn't work with all the apps, it does on the other Lollipops+ devices (like Nexus or Samsung). It only works on few apps (Gmail, YouTube, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Messaging, Calendar, Facebook and Messenger, and weirdly Viber, started working out of the sudden just now!) It's not a new issue tho! And pretty weird to see that working really fine on other non Xperia devices, the peeking option is On and no apps are accessing the notifications. Thanks!
Xperia Z5 Dual E6633 6.0.1

[MarlonUk1]

have you ever seen it work in an Xperia device ? if not then it might be that xperia doesn't support or have this feature,.

[Didrik]

Hi @_psycho,

By peeking, are you referring to a message dropping down on the display regardless of what app you are using? Similar to what you can see on this link: http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/peeking-android-m.gif

Could you provide some examples on what applications it is that are not working?

Keep me posted!

[_psycho]

@nolramlb

Not sure about that but why the toggle is available in the apps notification settings if it's not supported..

[_psycho]

@Didrik yeah that's what I meant. And apps like "Kik, Instagram, Play Store, and almost all games like Dead Trigger, Shadowgun, Sky Force"

[Didrik]

Hi again @_psycho,

As far as I know this is controlled by each individual app. The system itself allows app peeking but each application has to enable it in order for it to work.

I'll see if I can get some confirmation on this.

[_psycho]

Hello @Didrik
I don't know exactly but it does work fine on non Xperia devices :/..

[Didrik]

Hello again,

I've just received confirmation that app peeking is allowed by the system but controlled on an application level, meaning that each individual application controls if this will work or not. There are no settings to change this I'm afraid.

You can find more thorough information about how notifications work on Google's developer forum, found on the following link: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html#Heads-up

Note that I can unfortunately not comment on the information you find there.

[Grooveman1]

Since I've updated to Nougat I experience strange notifications with the heads up (peeking) in the screen when you receive a Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger etc.

With Android 6 it was possible to get a notification with sound and vibrate, but NO heads-up/peeking option. That was great! Now you can disable the peeking option, but it doesn't also vibrate and make a sound then. This is very annoying.

Who know a solution? Now it comes every in my screen when I get a Whatsapp and when you are browsing sometimes you click on the notification and you go immeditaly onlline... Not very great. 

[dembala]

@Grooveman1

Hehe, i want the complete opposite...  I don't have peeking and want to enable it funny.

In this thread it has been mentioned that the app must support peeking in order to work. Can someone confirm that the official Email app on my Xperia XZ doesn't support it? Peeking doesn't work there.

But i couldn't find any kind of email app either that would work on my Xperia for peeking.

Outlook, Nine to name the big names, none of them peeks.

Viber, Messages, Calls, Whatsapp peek fine, but no email...

I am coming from the iphone, where each and every app peeks as a standard feature of iOS core, it's not up to the app to decide. In this regard, Android is behind. In iOS i can control this behavior for every app i install, independent of it's support for it. Still a way to go for Android on the notification path to reach iOS.