Hide Service Notification

[surfuric]

I need my service to not shut down so I am using:
Service.StartForeground(1,n) where n is the notification I have set up.
This works well, but my users hate the icon in the notification bar.
So I changed:
n.icon = "icon"
to
n.icon = "" and now there is no notification in the ongoing section AND there is no icon in the notification bar at the top. Exactly what I want.

But . . . is this the correct way to run a service in the background, keep it alive even in low mem situations, and also hide the icon?

(I read that I should instead set the icon to a transparent icon, but have not run across the code to do so. If I need to do that instead, would someone please give me the code snippet for that?)

Thanks!

 

[Erel]

The purpose of the notification icon is that the user will know that there is an important background process that is running all the time.

You can use a transparent image icon. The code is exactly the same.

The behavior of setting the icon to an empty string is undefined.