Android Tutorial

By : Ketan Bhimani

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code demonstrates how to play a sound that is included as a

project resource:

notify.sound = Uri.parse(
"android.resource://com.androidbook.simplenotifications/" +
R.raw.fallbackring);

By default, the audio file is played once. As with the vibration, the

Notification. FLAG_ INSISTENT flag can be used to repeat

incessantly until the user clears the notification. No specific

permissions are needed for this form of notification

Customizing the Notification

Although the default notification behavior in the expanded status

bar tray is sufficient for most purposes, developers can customize

how notifications are displayed if they so choose. To do so,

developers can use the RemoteViews object to customize the look

and feel of a notification.

The following code demonstrates how to create a RemoteViews

object and assign custom text to it:

RemoteViews remote =
new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.remote);
remote.setTextViewText(R.id.text1, "Big text here!");
remote.setTextViewText(R.id.text2, "Red text down here!");
notify.contentView = remote;

To better understand this, here is the layout file remote.xml

referenced by the preceding code:

<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/text1"