Question

I’d like to selectively hide and show a notification based on what a user does.

Since that would happen pretty often, I’d like to have it appear in the notification dropdown without having the text message appear in the status bar every time I show it.

Task manager does it when I toggle it in its preference screen.

Answer 1

When you create the Notification object, pass null for the ticker text.

Notification n = new Notification(R.drawable.icon, null, System.currentTimeMillis());