Android: Using AUTO-CANCEL on a notification when your app is running in the background

Question

I have looked at all the other AUTO-CANCEL-not-working questions here, and they all seem to involve mistakes that I am not making. I have tried both

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Answer 1

So apparently you do need a pending intent.

At Android - notification manager, having a notification without an intent, I found a solution that grabs the current active application as your pending intent (so that you don't have to start your own activity in order to dismiss the notification).

I just added the following two lines of code (right after setting the auto-cancel):

PendingIntent notifyPIntent = 
    PendingIntent.getActivity(getApplicationContext(), 0, new Intent(), 0);     
builder.setContentIntent(notifyPIntent);

It worked great. I would say that if you don't want your activity to restart as a result of the user clicking your notification, then this is your best option.