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Mimmo
Mimmo

Reputation: 37

Android icon battery

With my program I launch a activity that show a fake alertdialog for battery low. Now I want change also the icon battery on status bar but this is a system icon and there is not api for to do this. I found on the Internet this not public API http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android/1.5_r4/com/android/server/status/StatusBarIcon.java but I have a problem for this line :

1) View v = inflater.inflate(com.android.internal.R.layout.status_bar_icon, parent, false);

2) AnimatedImageView im = (AnimatedImageView)v.findViewById(com.android.internal.R.id.image);

because on official API there is not a com.android.internal.R.layout.status_bar_icon or com.android.internal.R.id.image I tried to replace with costant int value but for first line I get View v = com.android.server.status.statusbarview@44f0a2c0 but for second line I get AnimatedImageView im = null :-(

How can I do it?

I can not do it, I thought of creating a transparent activity in fullscreen modo and notitle and put my fake battery image on the top and with layout margin left put it over the battery icon. I tried it but my image go under the status bar...why ?? :-(

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1855

Answers (1)

Will Tate
Will Tate

Reputation: 33509

Mimmo,

As far as I know, the only way to change the battery icon in the status bar would be a custom ROM. I don't believe it can be done programmatically, even with root access.

Upvotes: 3

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