This week I learned something new about Android’s Windowshade – the pulldown notification screen in Android 10. I like to listen to Spotify at work a lot, so I had a widget on one of my home pages for it so I could Like or Unlike songs as I listen to them to refine my library a little bit more each day. So as I was listening one day this week, I had the windowshade pulled down showing my current Spotify song and other recent notifications along with the current weather conditions, and I accidentally pulled down on the Spotify notification a second time. This opened up the details even further, now also showing the Like/Unlike option, the full album art in the background, and even the progress bar of the song playing!

Well, there goes my widget. I uninstalled it completely. It’s no longer needed, so I freed up that RAM and let it go. Very nice feature I never knew was there! I just wonder how long it’s been in there and I never knew about it. Now I’m realizing I can expand notifications for other apps as well–like e-mail… I can pull down the latest e-mail notification and see other recent e-mails I didn’t see come in. Sweet!