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user1499731

Reputation:

How do I make a Statusbar notification that does nothing and goes nowhere?

I have a working statusbar notification for Android already, but to create it I must set an Activity for it to open. I don't want any activity to open; however, this small project doesn't need an interface at all.

mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager) aContext
        .getApplicationContext().getSystemService(
                Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);

// Create the pending intent, which is basically NOW.
PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent
        .getActivity(aContext, 1, new Intent(aContext, BlankActivity.class),
                PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);

// Create notification
notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(aContext)
        .setContentIntent(contentIntent)
        .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher) // required for launch
        .setTicker("Downloading video...") // required for launch
        .setWhen(System.currentTimeMillis()) // should be set for now.
        .setContent(remoteView);

BlankActivity is what it sounds like -- an activity that has no content and closes upon being opened. But it still shows up on the list of recently opened windows. I cannot set this to null.

Is there a way I can avoid setting an intent for the status notification at all?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1000

Answers (2)

SachinGutte
SachinGutte

Reputation: 7055

You don't need PendingIntent in that case. Just setting it null in setContentIntent() might help.

Another way can be 

PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(aContext(),0,new Intent(),PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);

Try this.

Upvotes: 6

Emmanuel Harguindey
Emmanuel Harguindey

Reputation: 31

Setting it to null does not work for early versions like SDK 2.3 which requires an intent to be set, otherwise android will choke at receiver's start with the exception:java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start receiver com.movistar.android.mimovistar.widgets.WidgetIntentReceiver: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: contentIntent required see this post

Upvotes: 1

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