Persistent service icon in notification bar

Question

I am trying to figure out how to show that my service is running with a persistent notification icon. Many examples I\'ve found only send a dismissable message to the notifi

Answer 1

it should be the same as a dismissable message except you change the Flag.

Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT

instead of

Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL

When a notification is clicked the intent you send is run, so you make sure that Activity does whatever task you want.

private void showRecordingNotification(){
    Notification not = new Notification(R.drawable.icon, "Application started", System.currentTimeMillis());
    PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, new Intent(this, main.class), Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT);        
    not.flags = Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT;
    not.setLatestEventInfo(this, "Application Name", "Application Description", contentIntent);
    mNotificationManager.notify(1, not);
}