Android Quiet Notification

Question

I am creating an app which plays audio in the background. I have created a background service and a persistent notification to indicate that the music is currently playing.

However, when I create the notification it feels to strong (e.g. the same as when a new txt or email comes in.) and slides down in the status bar. Instead, I would like the notification to just appear in the status bar without anything fancy. I see other apps which do this, but I cannot figure out how it is done.

I have experimented with different notification flags, but I haven't found one that works. I also don't see anything in the NotificationManager which would help.

Anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

I wound up just re-using the same instance of the Notification object passed to NotificationManager rather than passing in a new one with the same ID.