Question

I’d like to show a timestamp in an Android Notification, just like the Android Design Guidelines suggest. (see the first snapshot, “12:03PM” is what I want!).

I tried many different ways, I thought setWhen would do it, but it only seems to affect the ordering in the Notification tray. Any idea how to achieve that?

See my code below:

  Notification.Builder builder = new Notification.Builder(context);
  builder.setContentIntent(pendingIntent)
    .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_notify)
    .setLargeIcon(largeIcon)
    .setTicker(text)
    .setNumber(unreadCount)
    .setWhen((new Date()).getTime())
    .setAutoCancel(true)
    .setContentTitle(title)
    .setContentText(text)
    .setDefaults(Notification.DEFAULT_VIBRATE);

notificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, builder.getNotification());

I don’t want to use a custom layout for the notification.

Answer 1

I think I found the answer myself, when seems to be displayed only on Android 4.0.3 and later.
My wife’s Nexus S (4.0.3) shows it, and I just upgraded to 4.0.4 on my Galaxy Nexus and it magically started to work!

It also shows on older versions (2.3 for instance), but not on 4.0.2 !