{"id":281895,"date":"2018-10-26T08:49:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=281895"},"modified":"2018-10-26T08:51:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T06:51:37","slug":"google-kills-android-nearby-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/281895-google-kills-android-nearby-notifications.html","title":{"rendered":"Google kills Android Nearby Notifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/2018\/10\/discontinuing-support-for-android.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that it is discontinuing support for Android&#8217;s Nearby Notifications feature.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby Notifications was created to allow users to discover apps and content based on nearby events, but the number of spam notifications has increased drastically this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our goal was to bring relevant and engaging content to users &#8211; to provide useful information proactively,&#8221; Google said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, earlier this year, we noticed a significant increase in locally irrelevant and spammy notifications that were leading to a poor user experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google will stop serving Android Nearby Notifications on 6 December 2018, after which users will stop receiving them altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Developers will still be able to deliver proximity-based notifications through their third-party apps using the company&#8217;s Proximity Beacons API.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/280981-googles-gboard-now-lets-the-keyboard-float.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google\u2019s Gboard now lets the keyboard float<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced that it is discontinuing support for Android&#8217;s Nearby Notifications feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":268787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,167,54915],"class_list":["post-281895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-google","tag-nearby-notifications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281949,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281895\/revisions\/281949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}