Dependencies and prerequisites
- Android 1.6 (API Level 4) or higher
You should also read
- Notifications API Guide
- Intents and Intent Filters
- Notifications Design Guide
Try it out
Download the sample
NotifyUser.zip
A notification is a user interface element that you display outside your app's normal UI to indicate that an event has occurred. Users can choose to view the notification while using other apps and respond to it when it's convenient for them.
The Notifications design guide shows you how to design effective notifications and when to use them. This class shows you how to implement the most common notification designs.
Lessons
- Building a Notification
-
Learn how to create a notification
Builder
, set the required features, and issue the notification. - Preserving Navigation when Starting an Activity
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Learn how to enforce the proper
navigation for an
Activity
started from a notification. - Updating Notifications
- Learn how to update and remove notifications.
- Using Big View Styles
- Learn how to create a big view within an expanded notification, while still maintaining backward compatibility.
- Displaying Progress in a Notification
- Learn how to display the progress of an operation in a notification, both for operations where you can estimate how much has been completed (determinate progress) and operations where you don't know how much has been completed (indefinite progress).