Android foreground service notification not showing

Question

I am trying to start a foreground service. I get notified that the service does start but the notification always gets suppressed. I double checked that the app is allowed to show notifications in the app info on my device. Here is my code:

private void showNotification() {
    Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
    notificationIntent.setAction(Constants.ACTION.MAIN_ACTION);
    notificationIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK
            | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
    PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0,
            notificationIntent, 0);

    Bitmap icon = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),
            R.mipmap.ic_launcher);

    Notification notification = new NotificationCompat.Builder(getApplicationContext())
            .setContentTitle("Revel Is Running")
            .setTicker("Revel Is Running")
            .setContentText("Click to stop")
            .setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher)
            //.setLargeIcon(Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(icon, 128, 128, false))
            .setContentIntent(pendingIntent)
            .setOngoing(true).build();
    startForeground(Constants.FOREGROUND_SERVICE,
            notification);
    Log.e(TAG,"notification shown");

}

Here is the only error I see in relation: 06-20 12:26:43.635 895-930/? E/NotificationService: Suppressing notification from the package by user request.

Answer 1

The problem was i am using Android O and it requires more information. Here is the successful code for android O.

    mNotifyManager = (NotificationManager) mActivity.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) createChannel(mNotifyManager);
    mBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(mActivity, "YOUR_TEXT_HERE").setSmallIcon(android.R.drawable.stat_sys_download).setColor
            (ContextCompat.getColor(mActivity, R.color.colorNotification)).setContentTitle(YOUR_TITLE_HERE).setContentText(YOUR_DESCRIPTION_HERE);
    mNotifyManager.notify(mFile.getId().hashCode(), mBuilder.build());

@TargetApi(26)
private void createChannel(NotificationManager notificationManager) {
    String name = "FileDownload";
    String description = "Notifications for download status";
    int importance = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT;

    NotificationChannel mChannel = new NotificationChannel(name, name, importance);
    mChannel.setDescription(description);
    mChannel.enableLights(true);
    mChannel.setLightColor(Color.BLUE);
    notificationManager.createNotificationChannel(mChannel);
}