How to show different icons for status bar and notification bar in Android?

Question

I'm creating android notification according to android documentation. I used large icon and small icon for Notification bar.

In this case small icon is showing on both status bar and notification bar . I want to show different icons for status bar and notification bar, how i can achieve that ?

Answer 1

There are different API's for each. See below:

Notification.Builder nb = new Notification.Builder(context)
    .setContentTitle("title")
    .setContentText("content")
    .setAutoCancel(true)
    .setLargeIcon(largeIcon)
    .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.small_icon)
    .setTicker(s.getText());

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/app/NotificationCompat.Builder.html#setSmallIcon%28int%29

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/app/NotificationCompat.Builder.html#setLargeIcon%28android.graphics.Bitmap%29

OR

As an alternative, you could use a custom notification layout.