Oreo Notification Bar Round Icon

Question

I want to know that how can I change the notification bar small icon in android Oreo (API 26). It has round white icon showing in the notification bar. How can I change it? Manifest file default notification icon set as below.

<meta-data
     android:name="com.google.firebase.messaging.default_notification_icon"
     android:resource="@drawable/ic_status" />

See the image below

Answer 1

1. Remove <meta-data> tag from AndroidManifest.xml.
2. Notification Builder has .setSmallIcon(int icon, int level) which accepts icon as a compulsory argument & level parameter as an optional argument.

NOTE: .setSmallIcon accepts drawables & DOES NOT accept mipmaps.

This is how it should be according to Android 8.0 Oreo Notification Channels & behaviour changes:

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private CharSequence name;
    private int notifyId;
    private int importance;
    private String id;
    private String description;

    private Notification mNotification;
    private NotificationManager mNotificationManager;
    private NotificationChannel mChannel;
    private PendingIntent mPendingIntent;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        ActivityMainBinding binding = DataBindingUtil.setContentView(this, R.layout.activity_main);
        binding.btnNotification.setOnClickListener(v -> notification());
    }

    private void notification() {

        mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        notifyId = 1;
        description = "Hello World, welcome to Android Oreo!";

        Intent intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
        mPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, notifyId, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

        if (SDK_INT >= O) {
            id = "id";
            name = "a";
            importance = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_HIGH;

            mChannel = new NotificationChannel(id, name, importance);
            mChannel.setDescription(description);
            mChannel.enableLights(true);
            mChannel.setLightColor(Color.WHITE);
            mChannel.enableVibration(true);
            mChannel.setVibrationPattern(new long[] {100, 300, 200, 300});
            mNotificationManager.createNotificationChannel(mChannel);

            mNotification = new Notification.Builder(MainActivity.this, id)
                .setContentTitle(id)
                .setContentText(description)
                .setContentIntent(mPendingIntent)
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher_foreground)
                .build();
        } else {
            mNotification = new Notification.Builder(MainActivity.this)
                .setContentTitle(id)
                .setContentText(description)
                .setContentIntent(mPendingIntent)
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher_foreground)
                .setLights(Color.WHITE, Color.RED, Color.GREEN)
                .setVibrate(new long[] {100, 300, 200, 300})
                .build();
        }
            mNotificationManager.notify(notifyId, mNotification);
    }
}