Progress bar in notification bar when uploading image?

Question

Hi,

I'd like my app to upload an image to a web server. That part works.

I'm wondering if it's possible to somehow show the progress of the upload by entering an entry in the "notification bar". I see the Facebook app does this.

When you take a picture and choose to upload, the app lets you continue on, and somehow puts the picture upload notifications in a progress bar in the notification bar. I think that's pretty slick. I guess they spawn a new service or something to handle the upload and update that progress bar in the notification bar every so often.

Thanks for any ideas

Answer 1

I'm not a Facebook user, so I do not know exactly what you're seeing.

It is certainly possible to keep updating a Notification, changing the icon to reflect completed progress. As you suspect, you would do this from a Service with a background thread that is managing the upload.

Answer 2

You can design a custom notification, instead of just the default notification view of header and sub-header.

What you want is here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html#CustomExpandedView

Answer 3

For a more detailed explanation how to create custom views see: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html