Android Question Service.StartForeground change strings

[Alberto Michelis]

Hi, Im using Service.StartForeground in my service.
As noted in the other Threads I code:

    snotif.Initialize
    snotif.Icon = "logo.png"
    snotif.SetInfo2("TITLE","SUB_TITLE",0,mDashboard)
    snotif.Sound = False
    snotif.Notify(1)
    Service.StartForeground(1,snotif)

And there are two weird results.

-When the service is started, the icon is OK but the "TITLE" is replaced by the app name and the "SUB_TITLE" by "Touch to obtain more information..." and if you touch you are redirected to the Android app form from where you can Stop and Unistall and etc...

-The other weird behavior is that when you lunch a real notification from your app these initial service notification is replaced by the new notification, it works ok touching it and going to the activity I want but... stays with the title and subtitle of the last notification and cant be deleted from the notification pad. Then been confusing to the user.

Tested using SetInfo and Setinfo2

Am I doing somethig wrong? Android 4.3

 

[DonManfred]

I think it is still the service runnig notification

correct

i cant answer more sorry.

 

[Erel]

1. You shouldn't call snotif.Notify.
2. Make sure that any other notification created in your app uses a different id.

 

[Alberto Michelis]

1- I delete the snotif.Notify and nothig changes, still replacing Title and Subtitle and going to the Stop-Unistall Android page.
2- All my notification has its own ID

FWIW Im doing this in the first line of Service_Create

I've added this lines to the begginig of the Service_Start, trying to reproduce the problem 2 and then fix the title and subtitle:

    Dim snot As Notification
    snot.Initialize
    snot.Icon = "logo.png"
    snot.Sound = False
    snot.Vibrate = False
    snot.SetInfo2("PortIt","Servicio de Lectura",0,mDashboard)
    snot.Notify(1)

And the result is the Notification is gone!!

All subsecuent notification works ok.

 

[Erel]

Please create a small program that demonstrates this issue and upload it.

 

[Alberto Michelis]

Here it goes...

 

[Erel]

You haven't set the Icon property correctly. It should point to an image from the drawable folder and it shouldn't include the file extension:

snotif.Icon = "icon"

 

[Alberto Michelis]

Done, same problem...

 

[Erel]

You still haven't set the icon property correctly. Please go over the code more carefully.

 

[DonManfred]

Done, same problem...

Sub Service_Create

    snotif.Initialize
    snotif.Icon = "logo"

but there is no logo.png in your drawable folder

 

[Alberto Michelis]

I see it ok... the logo.png is in the Files folder... whats wrong?

 

[DonManfred]

whats wrong?

You do not read correctly!

but there is no logo.png in your drawable folder

It should point to an image from the drawable folder

Files folder is NOT the drawable-folder!

Objects\res\drawable is the drawables-folder. Note to set the files in this folder must be set to read-only to be not removed when compiling.

Or use an additional-resource folder

 

[Alberto Michelis]

Sory, because in my original app I saw the correct icon I thought it is ok for it to be in the files folder.

 

[DonManfred]

Look in <your drawable folder. The is only a icon.png... so notif.icon = "icon" should work for THIS png...

 

[Alberto Michelis]

Thanks you all!!!

 

[Alberto Michelis]

Hi, now Im having problems with

 snot.SetInfo2("PortIt","Servicio de Lectura",0,mDashboard)

mDashboard is the 2nd activity that is called by Main when the app starts, the app never comes back to Main.
If I use this code when I use the app and goes back and forth into the app activities, if I click in the notification sometimes it does not works well, it crashes or loose variables..
If I code like

 snot.SetInfo2("PortIt","Servicio de Lectura",0,"")

nothing happesn and all is ok

Is the any thing I can replace mDashboard to make the app to open in the actual activity?

Thanks

 

[Erel]

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