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Android Notification Manager - Creating Ongoing Notifications with Action buttons


// Cancel older notification with same id,
NotificationManager notificationMgr = (NotificationManager)context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE); notificationMgr.cancel(CALL_NOTIFY_ID);// any constant value // Create Pending Intent, Intent notificationIntent = null; PendingIntent contentIntent = null; notificationIntent = new Intent (context, YourActivityName); contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, notificationIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT); // Notification builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context); builder.setContentText("Ongoing Notification.."); builder.setContentTitle("ongoing notification sample"); builder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.notification_icon); builder.setUsesChronometer(true); builder.setDefaults(Notification.DEFAULT_LIGHTS); builder.setContentIntent(contentIntent); builder.setOngoing(true); // Add action button in the notification Intent intent = new Intent("action.name"); PendingIntent pIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 1, intent, 0); builder.addAction(R.drawable.action_button_icon, "Action button name",pIntent); // Notify using notificationMgr Notification finalNotification = builder.build(); notificationMgr.notify(CALL_NOTIFY_ID, finalNotification);

 Register Broadcast Receiver and listen for the action to handle click event of action button.

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