Local Notifications in Android?

Question

In iOS, a \"Local Notification\" is used by an app when it is in the background, to inform the user that something has happened, that they might want to pay attention to:

Answer 1

LocalBroadcastManager looks like a better solution: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/content/LocalBroadcastManager.html Create your own custom Intent action, broadcast it to your process, and make sure any activity etc. is registered as a receiver for that intent.