POPs: Animated Notifications for Texts, Mails, and More

Article by George Norman (Cybersecurity Editor)

on 24 Sep 2012

Add a POP animation to one of your contacts and it will be displayed as a notification on your screen every time you get an email or text message from that contact.

POPs is a notifications theme app, meaning that it allows you to customize the notifications you see when you receive an email, Facebook, or text message. Instead of the default notification the Android-operating system uses, you get to see a cool animation or video instead.

The POPs application comes with a nice selection of animations. Browse through them and when you find one that’s a perfect match for one of your contacts, assign it to that contact. Let’s say you find some cutesy animation and you assign it for Sarah, your girlfriend. Whenever Sarah contacts you via Facebook, Whatsapp, Gmail, Twitter, Yahoo! Messenger, Google+, Instagram, Skype, Gtalk, or text message, the animation you selected will be used to notify you.

The POPs notification includes a preview of the SMS or email message you received. With a simple tap on the screen you can see the text or email message you received and you can type in a response.

As mentioned above, the POPs application comes with a nice selection of animations you could use. If these are not enough, the developer also has a Cats Themes for POPs and an Emoji Themes for POPs app. And if these are still not enough, you could always create a POP using one of your own images or videos.

You won’t have to part with any of your money to enjoy the functionality POPs has to offer. The app is available for download on Google’s Play Store for the awesome price of free. So go get it and make your notifications POP!

POPs is available for download on the Play Store here.
Additional information on the POPS app is available here.





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