Android Notification intent to clear it self

Question

I have read many examples of how to create notification messages. What i wanted to achieve, is because the notification will be executed by a widget, i would like the notifi

Answer 1

If you're using NotificationCompat.Builder (a part of android.support.v4) then simply call its object's method setAutoCancel

NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context);
builder.setAutoCancel(true);

Some guys were reporting that setAutoCancel() did not work for them, so you may try this way as well

builder.build().flags |= Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;