When you download from the Market you get informed about the progress in the notification area.That’s a really nice feature, which you may want for your own download or processing progress. I will show you the basics of generating such a Notification. All you need to do is add it to your code.
I included a screenshot. You can find the code at github.
First of all, you need your Notification object:
// configure the notification
final Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.icon, "simulating a download", System
.currentTimeMillis());
notification.flags = notification.flags | Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT;
notification.contentView = new RemoteViews(getApplicationContext().getPackageName(),
R.layout.download_progress);
notification.contentIntent = pendingIntent;
notification.contentView.setImageViewResource(R.id.status_icon, R.drawable.ic_menu_save);
notification.contentView.setTextViewText(R.id.status_text, "simulation in progress");
notification.contentView.setProgressBar(R.id.status_progress, 100, progress, false);
then add it to the NotificationManager
final NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getApplicationContext()
.getSystemService(getApplicationContext().NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
notificationManager.notify(42, notification);
in your Thread call the NotificationManager regularly, after you updated your notification with new values:
notification.contentView.setProgressBar(R.id.status_progress, 100, progress, false);
// inform the progress bar of updates in progress
notificationManager.notify(42, notification);
The XML and the full example, ready to run, can be found on github.
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