Honeycomb notifications - How to set largeIcon to the right size?

Question

I find myself curious why the setLargeIcon method on Notification.Builder only accepts a Bitmap, with no overload to provide a resource id. Perhaps it was done for performan

Answer 1

Not had a chance to check it yet but API 11 introduced the following public dimens:

• notification_large_icon_height
• notification_large_icon_width

Should be able to use those to scale your image before setting it on the notification.