Notification Drawer and Recent Apps
Notification Drawer Android was the first of the major smartphone operating systems that we have today to implement the idea of a Notification Drawer. The idea of a screen to store all notifications that can be accessed from anywhere is something that both iOS and Windows Phone 8 have borrowed from Android. Although today it seems like the utility of such a design should be self-evident, it clearly was not, as iOS had previously resorted to intrusive alerts that displayed in the middle of the screen and interrupted the user.
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