Nearly all of us have at least one or two applications we’d hate to be without, unfortunately, these are the ones that spam us with a ton of useless notifications. Sadly, more often than not, this causes us to delete the apps, in an effort to restore some peace in our Notification Panel. However, you may like to know that there is a much simpler fix out there, which allows you to keep the applications and thankfully disable their notifications.

While the Android L developer preview gives us a taste of what’s coming this fall, many of the features and improvements that were showcased at Google I/O last month are missing. So are some classic Android functions, including the ability to clear all alerts from the notification pane by tapping just one button.

Fortunately for those already running the Android L preview, there is a third-party workaround that will save you a lot of time and frustration.

After giving the world a glimpse at Android Wear back in March, Google has finally revealed its new OS meant for wearables. Android Wear, detailed Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, is a true OS for smartwatches that will offer many advanced features like synced notifications, the ability to control other devices around you and constant display of relevant information based on the wearer’s location.

Unless Apple surprises the world with the speedy release of its long-rumored iWatch, it looks like Android Wear smartwatches will win the race for wrist supremacy. In other words, they’ll be your first “iWatch.” Here’s what the Google-powered devices will offer.

The team behind CyanogenMod has rolled out an awesome new feature in its latest nightly builds — one that’s been hidden inside stock Android for some time. It’s called “Heads Up,” and it’s a notification mode that lets you preview and interact with “floating” alerts that are overlaid above what you’re doing.

There are plenty of positive things to say HTC’s nifty DotView case for the One M8, but its lack of support for third-party notifications isn’t one of them. Fortunately, those with a rooted device can now take advantage of an unofficial tweak to change this themselves.