Android Notification Panel Removed in Android 10

Android Notification Panel Removed in Android 10

[Justin McAfee]

It appears that myself and others have noticed that Android 10 has
removed the VPN status and connection details from the top-down
notifications UI.

If a VPN is active, the Key icon appears, but pulling down the
Notifications bar shows nothing.

This used to be a quick and easy way to verify WG connectivity, active
tunnel, and amount of bandwidth utilized.

This can still be accomplished but is done by long pressing the
wireguard toggle in the quick settings (or opening the wireguard
application) then selecting the active tunnel and viewing the transfer
details on the bottom.

I'm sure this will come up again, but wanted to share with you all.

Thanks for all the work Jason, et al. put into this project. Its
greatly appreciated.


- AV

"but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being
prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the
hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,"
1 Peter 3:15

Re: Android Notification Panel Removed in Android 10

[Harsh Shandilya]

Hey Justin,

On Nov 30 2020, at 2:23 am, Justin McAfee <justinamcafee@gmail.com> wrote:

> It appears that myself and others have noticed that Android 10 has
> removed the VPN status and connection details from the top-down
> notifications UI.
> 
> If a VPN is active, the Key icon appears, but pulling down the
> Notifications bar shows nothing.

That's right, because it was moved further up into the Quick Settings
panel. If you pull again you will see a 'Network is being monitored'
warning below the quick settings tiles, clicking which will take you to
VPN settings.

> 
> This used to be a quick and easy way to verify WG connectivity, active
> tunnel, and amount of bandwidth utilized.
> 
> This can still be accomplished but is done by long pressing the
> wireguard toggle in the quick settings (or opening the wireguard
> application) then selecting the active tunnel and viewing the transfer
> details on the bottom.
> 
> I'm sure this will come up again, but wanted to share with you all.
> 
> Thanks for all the work Jason, et al. put into this project. Its
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> - AV

Cheers,
Harsh