I have an app that uses the notification bar in a similar way but I provided a setting in preferences that they can use to turn off the notification.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:48 AM, rich friedel <[email protected]>wrote: > To be fair, I obviously do not know for a fact that HTC devices > are intentionally ignoring the startForeground() method. Here are the bug > reports though so y'all decide... > http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9663 && > http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9682 > > As for the status bar icon persistently showing while the app is running, I > do this because my app runs silently in the background and auto-responds to > text messages therefore I use the icon as a quick visual cue to let the user > know it is in fact running. Otherwise I fear they would forget it is running > and blame my app for auto-responding when they "think" it shouldn't be. > Also, it only shows a short message when the user explicitly starts the > service and then shows another short message upon sending the > auto-response. In the notification drop down area I have an ongoing > notification. Apart from error messages that is pretty much it. > > If this is incorrect usage of the status bar icon and notification that is > fine and I'll conform to whatever y'all suggest, however I really cannot > think of a better way of doing it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
