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Android show notification only when the status bar is expanded

Is it possible in Android to show notification only when the status bar is expanded? I mean only when I dragged down the status bar, I can see the notification otherwise it will be hidden. If it is possible how I can implement it? I just need to hide the application icon from status bar when it is in the minimal view.Check this

Solution

  • Actually I figured it out myself that from Android 4.1 (API 16) it's possible to specify a notification's priority. If you set that flag to PRIORITY_MIN the notification icon won't show up on the statusbar but you are still able to view the notification on expanding the statusbar.

    // Use NotificationCompat.Builder to set up our notification.
NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(
            this).setOngoing(true);
    notificationBuilder.setContentTitle("my_title"); 
    notificationBuilder.setSmallIcon(ic_launcher);
// Do other stuffs here.

 notificationBuilder.setPriority(Notification.PRIORITY_MIN);// Set this.