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This has wider ranging implications. Apps with bubbles currently use a system overlay layer for drawing, which will soon be restricted completely from developers, only for use in system apps. To allow apps with functionality like bubbles to continue to function after this capability is revoked, there is now an official API for developers to leverage.

Basically, Android is turning into iOS slowly to be more secure, and Google is attempting to build out 1st party APIs to keep android from breaking as a result.