Android Question Notification bar icons

DonManfred

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• Dec 1, 2016

• #2

obscure said:

How did they do this?

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I dont see two different icons. It´s the same icon. The Notification has a white background... White ion on white background does not look good. So the icon is inside a round shape in the notification.

But it is not a different Icon.

 

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Erel

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• Dec 1, 2016

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You can add a LargeIcon with the NotificationBuilder library: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/notification-builder-library.27376/#content

 

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obscure

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• Dec 1, 2016

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Hi Don Manfred!

The problem is that the system doesn't check if the icon consists of a white shape only.

See the icon saying 'b4a'?

Unfortunately LargeIcon doesn't seem to do what I want Erel as it keeps the small icon and moves it to the
right of the notification. If you take a look at the screenshots in my first post once more you can see there
is just the icon on the left. (Beside that I think 'SMS Composer' was made before NotificationBuilder was
available.) There must be another way!

 

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inakigarm

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• Dec 1, 2016

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I think it's a Google Design decision:
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-5.0-changes.html

 

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obscure

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• Dec 3, 2016

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Hey inakigarm.

Thanks for the link! If I've this right, we should use 'setColor'
to set the accent color.
How do we do this from b4a?

 

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Erel

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• Dec 4, 2016

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This is how the notifications look in Android 7:



What is the value of targetSdkVersion in your app?

 

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obscure

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• Dec 4, 2016

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Hi Erel!

I was targeting API 18. If I switch to 21 any opaque area inside
the icons gets replaced by white and the gray circle is there too.
So this seems to do it!
What I still don't understand is this: The 'SMS Composer' application,
to be seen in my very first post was last updated 2011 - about 3 years
away from API 21 - must be API 12 or so. Why on earth does Android
transform the icon to white-only and adds the gray circle if it doesn't
do it if I'm targeting API 18?

 

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Erel

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• Dec 4, 2016

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obscure said:

Why on earth does Android
transform the icon to white-only and adds the gray circle if it doesn't
do it if I'm targeting API 18?

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I'm not sure.

 

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