Well, it turns out you can get a notification LED on an Android in 2022, albeit a virtual one. It requires the aodNotify app and a compatible device—the newer ones from Samsung, OnePlus, and Google—to work. Let’s take a look at aodNotify, its features, and how you can use it to add a notification LED to your Android device.
What is aodNotify?
aodNotify is an Android app that gives you the functionality of an LED notification light without the LED. It’s compatible with smartphones from Samsung, OnePlus, and Google and is pretty easy to use. With aodNotify, you get various customization options, wherein you can choose from different notification light styles and show the notification light around the camera cutout or the screen edges. Not just that, you can upgrade to aodNotify Pro and unlock more customization options. Of these, being able to add a notification LED dot to your device’s status bar is perhaps the most appealing feature.
aodNotify Features
Although aodNotify comes across as a simple app, it has many features underneath. Here’s a list of some of the notable aodNotify features:
Multiple notification light styles: camera cutout, screen edge, LED dot Custom app and contact notification colors Interval mode and night time mode to save battery Notification preview Minimal battery consumption Charging/low battery indicator
How to Enable aodNotify
First, download the aodNotify on your compatible Samsung, OnePlus, or Google device from the links below.
Download aodNotify for Samsung Download aodNotify for OnePlus Download aodNotify for Pixel
Once the app is downloaded and installed, hit the Next button on the welcome screen. Now, before you can enable aodNotify and start using it, you need to complete a checklist first to set it up.
Here’s what these checklist tasks are and how to navigate them: Hit the Done! button when you’ve enabled all the options on the checklist.
aodNotify Options
With aodNotify configured, when a notification arrives on your phone now, aodNotify will alert you of the same with the notification light. It will show these alerts using the default configuration settings (style, color, size, etc.) for the notification light. However, if for some reason you don’t like an element in this configuration or wish to explore more customization options, you can do so in the app’s settings. Here’s how to change some of these aodNotify settings.
How to Choose Which Apps Can Activate Notification Light
While aodNotify lets you select which apps can activate the notification light on your device during its initial setup, if you wish to do it later, you can do so using these steps:
How to Set Battery Events to Activate Notification Light
Apart from incoming notifications from apps, aodNotify can also display notifications in response to certain battery events like when the phone is charging, it’s fully charged, or when the battery is below 15%. Follow the steps below to set any of these triggers:
How to Customize aodNotify Notification Light
aodNotify lets you customize different aspects of the notification light like its style, animation effects, and dimensions so you can customize the light as per your requirements.
Change Notification Light Style
Change Animation Effects
Change Dimensions of the Notification Light
How to Change Color Settings of Notification Light
aodNotify gives you the freedom to choose the notification light color for your device. Here’s how to do this:
Get Notified Differently With aodNotify
With aodNotify, you can change the way you get notified on your Samsung, OnePlus, or Google smartphone. Now, instead of relying on your phone’s sound/vibration, you have a notification light on the device that glows up every time there’s an incoming notification. Not just that, it also alerts you of events like low battery status, which can prove quite useful. While we’ve tried to cover the essential aspects of aodNotify in this guide, there are still several customization options on the app that we haven’t discussed. Consider checking out these options to personalize the notification light even further.
