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Android Notification

The document discusses different notification and dialog tools available in Android development including toasts, notifications manager, and dialog boxes. It provides code examples for creating toasts, setting up a notifications manager, and displaying default dialog boxes in an Android app.

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Android Notification

The document discusses different notification and dialog tools available in Android development including toasts, notifications manager, and dialog boxes. It provides code examples for creating toasts, setting up a notifications manager, and displaying default dialog boxes in an Android app.

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Development

Android
No)ca)on

UI tools
Toasts No)ca)ons Manager Dialog box

Toasts
Transient Non-modal Dialog box User to display informa)on to user without stealing focus from the ac)ve applica)ons

Examples
Context context = getApplica)onContext(); String msg = To health and happiness! Int dura)on = Toast.LENGTH_SHORT; Toast toast = Toast.makeText(context, msg , dura)on); Toast.show();

Result

No)ca)ons
More robust mechanism for aler)ng users
Ring tone Vibra)on Flashing of LED Status bar icons to indicate an event

No)ca)on Manager
System Service used to handle no)ca)ons. Get reference to it using the getSystemService method E.g. String svcName = Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE; No)ca)onManager no)ca)onManager; no)ca)onManager= (No)ca)onManager)getSystemService(svcName) Or No)ca)onManager no)ca)onManager = (No)ca)onManager) getSystemService(CONTEXT.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);

Example
BuZon btnShowNo)ca)on; No)ca)onManager no)ca)onManager; No)ca)on no)ca)on; int no)ca)onRef;

Example
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); no)ca)onRef = 1; String svcName = Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE; int icon = R.drawable.icon; String )ckerText = "No)ca)on"; long when = System.currentTimeMillis();

Example
no)ca)on = new No)ca)on(icon,)ckerText, when); Context context = getApplica)onContext(); String expandedText = "Extended status text"; String expandedTitle = "No)ca)on Title"; Intent intent = new Intent(this,myNo)ca)onManager.class); PendingIntent launchIntent = PendingIntent.getAc?vity(context, 0, intent, 0); no)ca)on.setLatestEventInfo(context, expandedTitle, expandedText,launchIntent);

Example
btnShowNo)ca)on = (BuZon) ndViewById(R.id.btnShowNo?ca?on); btnShowNo)ca)on .setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { } }); no)ca)onManager .no)fy(no)ca)onRef, no)ca)on);

Result

Result

Dialogs
Two methods of doing it
Changing of manifest (Customized) Using of default

Dialogs
Two methods of doing it
Changing of manifest (Customized) Using of default

DIY
Normal Ac)vity Change of theme in manifest le
Informing the OS to treat ac)vity as a dialog E.g. <ac)vity android:name=".myDialog" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog </ac)vity>

DIY : Result

Default Dialogs
AZached to Ac)vity Sequence
Call showDialog( int id ); Override onCreateDialog( int id ) method

Create dialog with the following aZributes


Icon Title Posi)ve and / or Nega)ve buZon

Default Dialogs
E.g.
public void onClick(View v) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub showDialog(0);

Default Dialogs
E.g.
protected Dialog onCreateDialog(int id) { Dialog retDialog; switch(id) { } }

Default Dialogs
E.g. retDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this) .setIcon(R.drawable.icon) .setTitle("Dialog Text") .setPosi)veBuZon("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
@Override public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) { } })

.setNega)veBuZon("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {


@Override public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) { } })

.create();

Customized: Result

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