Notification For Android

Notification are used for Background task interaction with user. When you want to download , upload data to/from server . And you want to do other task in android phone then use notification manager helper class to provided time to time update for user to get the process state. We create you helper class hope you enjoy it.

public class MyNotificationManager {
private Context mContext;
private int NOTIFICATION_ID = 0;
private Notification mNotification;
private NotificationManager mNotificationManager;
private PendingIntent mContentIntent;
private CharSequence mContentTitle;

    private int icon=0;
public MyNotificationManager(Context context, int iconState)
{
    mContext = context;
   icon=iconState;
}

public void createNotification(int id, String title) {
    NOTIFICATION_ID=id;
   //create notification manager
   mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager)
                                       mContext.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
//create the notification
// icon=iconState
CharSequence tickerText = mContext.getString(R.string.download_ticker);
   long when = System.currentTimeMillis();
mNotification = new Notification(icon, tickerText, when);

//create the content which is shown in the notification pulldown
    mContentTitle = mContext.getString(R.string.content_title); //Full title of the notification in the pull down
CharSequence contentText = “0% complete”; //Text of the notification in the pull down
//It used for click event of notifion to open activity.
    Intent notificationIntent = new Intent();
   mContentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(mContext, 0, notificationIntent, 0);

//add the additional content and intent to the notification
mNotification.setLatestEventInfo(mContext, title, contentText, mContentIntent);

//make this notification appear in the ‘Ongoing events’ section
mNotification.flags = Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT;

//show the notification
mNotificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, mNotification);
}

public void progressUpdate(int percentageComplete) {
    //build up the new status message
   CharSequence contentText = percentageComplete + “% complete”;
   //publish it to the status bar
   mNotification.setLatestEventInfo(mContext, mContentTitle, contentText, mContentIntent);
   mNotificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, mNotification);
}

/**
* called when the background task is complete, this removes the notification from the status bar.
* We could also use this to add a new ‘task complete’ notification
*/
public void completed(String msg)
{
mNotificationManager.cancel(NOTIFICATION_ID);
}
}