Question

I have to display notification to the user from service always running in background.

I read that we have to use status bar notification to achieve this. But in the status bar icon is very small and user might miss it. I want to notify user similar to “new call notification” or “new message notification”

Please help me how can I construct such notifications.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

‘new message notification’ uses the same notification api you are talking about it just displays the message in the status bar. A new call is an Activity. You can start an activity from you service like this

startActivity(this, MyActivity.class);