Multiple notifications, 1 icon.

[barx]

Is it possible to have multiple notifications but only one icon in the status bar with the number of notifications shown with

n.number

 

[wl]

Probably I missed your point, but as found on:

Notification - Basic4android Wiki

you can set the Number property to display a number in the notification icon, as in following example:

Dim n As Notification
n.Initialize
n.Icon = "icon"
n.SetInfo ("This is the title", "and this is the body", "")
n.Number = 9
n.Notify(1)

 

[barx]

Yeah I saw that and can make an icon show the number as required. Its the other notifications after that. Basically I want to be able to show multiple notifications on the notification list all from the same service but only show 1 icon on the status bar with number of how many there are in list. I would add the icon with number along with the first notification added but any notification shown after this would also show icon. This is what I'm trying to avoid.

I guess the question should be. Can you add a notification to the list without showing an icon on the status bar. Cheers.

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[barx]

Tried this...

         If ShowIcon = True Then
            Note.Icon = Notes(5)
            Note.Number = NoteCount
            ShowIcon = False
         Else 
            Note.Icon = ""
         End If

but only first notification is shown with the right number.
So this concludes that using .icon = "" doesn't work.

Any other ideas?

 

[barx]

After looking round t'internet for a while, it appears that Android doesn't allow this :sign0148:

Other apps that give the impression of no icon seem to use a transparent icon. This is all well and good but I'm not 100% convinced with this. What happens when you have 3 transparent icons up there then you get a text msg or something? then the status icon for the text app will be show half way across the bar with blank space in between. Wonder if there is a way to force the transparent items to the far right so this effect is eliminated.

Going to keep reading and tinkering and will come back to report should I found anything out.

Ta.