I have a foreground service that I launch via startForegroundService.
All works great.
The only thing I am unable to figure out is how to / if its possible to customize the "...is running in the background' notification.
The notification I am sending over to startForeground looks like this:
Notification notification = notificationBuilder.setOngoing(true)
.setCategory(NotificationCompat.CATEGORY_SERVICE)
.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_notif_icon)
.setContentTitle("My title")
.setContentText("My content")
.build();
startForeground(1, notification);
I am then presented by android with the standard "...running in background" notification, with my custom one no where to be seen.
Am I doing something wrong?
Not looking to hide it or anything nefarious, but would like to use it more as a status of what the background service is actually doing... Which sounds like an ideal use case for this sort of thing.
For what its worth, I am running Android 8 and targeting SDK 26 as that is the latest available for my handset.
Thanks!
As per the Create and Manage Notification Channels guide:
Starting in Android 8.0 (API level 26), all notifications must be assigned to a channel.
Your notification is not appearing because you do not set a notification channel as per the note on that same page:
Caution: If you target Android 8.0 (API level 26) and post a notification without specifying a notification channel, the notification does not appear and the system logs an error.
Note: You can turn on a new setting in Android 8.0 (API level 26) to display an on-screen warning that appears as a toast when an app targeting Android 8.0 (API level 26) attempts to post without a notification channel. To turn on the setting for a development device running Android 8.0 (API level 26), navigate to Settings > Developer options and enable Show notification channel warnings.