Android show notification only when the status bar is expanded

Question

Is it possible in Android to show notification only when the status bar is expanded? I mean only when I dragged down the status bar, I can see the notification otherwise it will be hidden. If it is possible how I can implement it? I just need to hide the application icon from status bar when it is in the minimal view.Check this

Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20798565/can-i-force-expand-android-notification-on-android-4-1 — Kelevandos, Dec 16 '15 at 09:23
@Kelevandos, I don't need to display the notification in expanded view forced. I want to remove the icon from the status bar when it not expanded. — Jithin, Dec 16 '15 at 09:49

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 16 '15 at 12:10

Actually I figured it out myself that from Android 4.1 (API 16) it's possible to specify a notification's priority. If you set that flag to PRIORITY_MIN the notification icon won't show up on the statusbar but you are still able to view the notification on expanding the statusbar.

// Use NotificationCompat.Builder to set up our notification.
NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(
            this).setOngoing(true);
    notificationBuilder.setContentTitle("my_title"); 
    notificationBuilder.setSmallIcon(ic_launcher);
// Do other stuffs here.

 notificationBuilder.setPriority(Notification.PRIORITY_MIN);// Set this.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 16 '15 at 09:59

Can you add builder.setSmallIcon(...) to your Notification.Builder or NotificationCompat.Builder which you are using.

Code you need to try to get small icon in notification:

   // Use NotificationCompat.Builder to set up our notification.
    NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);
   /* icon appears in device notification bar and right hand corner of
     notification */
    builder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher);//Set this
   .....

Thanks for your help, but I want to remove that icon from the status bar when the status bar is not expanded. — Jithin, Dec 16 '15 at 10:12

Android show notification only when the status bar is expanded

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