Question

I am developing a small app in which I want a background service to send a notification and when the user clicks the notification it must launch the appropriate activity. I am posting the code here for the notification and my problem is that the notification gets displayed on the status bar but when i click it it does not launch the activity. Can somebody suggest where I am going wrong. Please help.

NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) 
        getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.ic_launcher,
        "A New Message!", System.currentTimeMillis());
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(NotificationService.this,
        com.jeris.android.MetroActivity.class);
notificationIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent
        .getService(NotificationService.this, 0, notificationIntent,
                PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT | PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);
notification.setLatestEventInfo(NotificationService.this, "Bullion",
        "Rates for "+ parsedDate+"has not been updated. Go to app to check rates",
        pendingIntent);
notificationManager.notify(11, notification);

Answer 1

Replace
PendingIntent.getService(NotificationService.this, 0, notificationIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT | PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);

With
PendingIntent.getActivity(NotificationService.this, 0, notificationIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT | PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);

Notice the getService is replaced with getActivity.