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The document discusses different types of notifications in Android mobile application development including status bar, notification drawer, heads-up, and lock-screen notifications. It provides steps for creating and sending notifications using NotificationCompat.Builder including setting properties, attaching actions, and issuing the notification.

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Notifications

The document discusses different types of notifications in Android mobile application development including status bar, notification drawer, heads-up, and lock-screen notifications. It provides steps for creating and sending notifications using NotificationCompat.Builder including setting properties, attaching actions, and issuing the notification.

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Mobile Application Development

UNIT II
Notifications
 Notification is a kind of message, alert, or status of an
application (probably running in the background) that is
visible or available in the Android’s UI elements.
 This application could be running in the background but
not in use by the user.
 The purpose of a notification is to notify the user about
a process that was initiated in the application either by
the user or the system
 Notifications could be of various formats and designs
depending upon the developer.
 There are 4 types of notifications:

1. Status Bar Notification - appears in the same


layout as the current time, battery percentage
2. Notification drawer Notification - appears in the
drop-down menu
3. Heads-Up Notification - appears on the overlay
screen, ex: Whatsapp notification, OTP messages
4. Lock-Screen Notification
 The properties of Android notification are set
using NotificationCompat.Builder object.
 Some of the notification properties are
 setSmallIcon(): It sets the icon of notification.
 setContentTitle(): It is used to set the title of
notification.
 setContentText(): It is used to set the text message.
 setAutoCancel(): It sets the cancelable property of
notification.
 setPriority(): It sets the priority of notification.

Create and Send Notifications

 Steps to create a notification

Step 1 - Create Notification Builder

 As a first step is to create a notification builder


using NotificationCompat.Builder.build().
 will use Notification Builder to set various Notification
properties like its small and large icons, title, priority etc.
NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder = new
NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
Step 2 - Setting Notification Properties

 Once craeate Builder object, can set its Notification


properties using Builder object as per requirement.
 But this is mandatory to set at least following
o A small icon, set by setSmallIcon()
o A title, set by setContentTitle()
o Detail text, set by setContentText()

mBuilder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.notification_icon);

mBuilder.setContentTitle("Notification Alert, Click Me!");


mBuilder.setContentText("Hi, This is Android
Notification Detail!");

Step 3 - Attach Actions

 This is an optional part and required if user wants to


attach an action with the notification.
 An action allows users to go directly from the
notification to an Activity in application, where they can
look at one or more events or do further work.
 The action is defined by a PendingIntent containing
an Intent that starts an Activity in the application.
 To associate the PendingIntent with a gesture, call the
appropriate method of NotificationCompat.Builder.
 For example, if want to start Activity when the user
clicks the notification text in the notification drawer, add
the PendingIntent by calling setContentIntent().
Intent resultIntent = new Intent(this, ResultActivity.class);
TaskStackBuilder stackBuilder =
TaskStackBuilder.create(this);
stackBuilder.addParentStack(ResultActivity.class);

Step 4 - Issue the notification

 Finally, pass the Notification object to the system by


calling NotificationManager.notify() to send notification.
 Make sure
call NotificationCompat.Builder.build() method on
builder object before notifying it.
 This method combines all of the options that have been
set and return a new Notification object.

NotificationManager mNotificationManager =
(NotificationManager)
getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
mNotificationManager.notify(notificationID, mBuilder.build());

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