Does anyone know if there is a way to group a notification in the status bar but not in the list of notifications?
I want to show only one icon in the status bar but when the user drags down the "notifications list" it should be several notifications with different intents.
As I understood there is only possible to either group both notifications on both places or to create several notifications which will cause several notifications in the status bar. Is this the case?
A1: To remove the status bar icon, use this trick:
builder.setSmallIcon(android.R.color.transparent); //Tested and worked in API 14
A2: To make persistant Notification, add this line:
builder.setOngoing(true)
You can't inflate just any view in a RemoteView. Change your View to an empty TextView or ImageView.
A RemoteViews object (and, consequently, an App Widget) can support the following layout classes:
FrameLayout LinearLayout RelativeLayoutAnd the following widget classes:
AnalogClock Button Chronometer ImageButton ImageView ProgressBar TextView ViewFlipper ListView GridView StackView AdapterViewFlipperDescendants of these classes are not supported.
Reference: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html#CreatingLayout
Okay so with this new information I would try something like this:
SpannableString bigText = (SpannableString) mExtras.get(Notification.EXTRA_TEXT);
if(bigText != null){
body = bigText.toString();
}
Edit: After reviewing the source I would try this:
CharSequence bigText = (CharSequence) mExtras.getCharSequence(Notification.EXTRA_TEXT);
if(bigText != null){
body = bigText.toString();
}
Have you tried using http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/RemoteViews.html ?
Yes, but you can create as complex of a custom
Notificationview as you want, via thecontentViewfield onNotification. This is aRemoteViews, better known as the what you use for rendering a home screen app widget. So, while there can only be one entry in the notification drawer for you, you can have it have several buttons each firing a separatePendingIntent.