The team over at Paranoid Android has announced they are open sourcing their HALO project. HALO brings Facebook Chat Heads-like notification functionality to Android apps, one of the few features of Facebook’s Home interface that actually received a positive response from users. Along with floating the notification on the screen on top of open applications, the HALO project gives users the ability to interact with app in a limited matter, like sending a response to a message.
For developers, the HALO project is based on AOSP while allowing those utilizing it to bring a visual aspect to the notifications. The Paranoid Android team has provided a couple commits on GitHub for developers to check out if they want to incorporate HALO into their ROM:
1. HALO 1/2
2. HALO 2/2
Unlike Samsung’s multi-window functionality, HALO is an extension of the system notification/shade. You can check out the team’s latest video showing how the system works below.
Click here to view the embedded video.
source: XDA Developers Blog
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