How to Create a Notification with Notificationcompat.Builder

How to create a notification with NotificationCompat.Builder?

The NotificationCompat.Builder is the most easy way to create Notifications on all Android versions. You can even use features that are available with Android 4.1. If your app runs on devices with Android >=4.1 the new features will be used, if run on Android <4.1 the notification will be an simple old notification.

To create a simple Notification just do (see Android API Guide on Notifications):

NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder =
    new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
    .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.notification_icon)
    .setContentTitle("My notification")
    .setContentText("Hello World!")
    .setContentIntent(pendingIntent); //Required on Gingerbread and below

You have to set at least smallIcon, contentTitle and contentText. If you miss one the Notification will not show.

Beware: On Gingerbread and below you have to set the content intent, otherwise a IllegalArgumentException will be thrown.

To create an intent that does nothing, use:

final Intent emptyIntent = new Intent();
PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(ctx, NOT_USED, emptyIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

You can add sound through the builder, i.e. a sound from the RingtoneManager:

mBuilder.setSound(RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION))

The Notification is added to the bar through the NotificationManager:

NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
notificationManager.notify(mId, mBuilder.build());

How to make it work NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this, NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_ID);

Try to use this, I think your problem is here: details.useVersion '25.3.0'

     configurations.all {
        resolutionStrategy.eachDependency { DependencyResolveDetails details ->
        def requested = details.requested
        if (requested.group == 'com.android.support') {
            if (!requested.name.startsWith("multidex")) {
                details.useVersion '27.1.0'
            }
        }
    }

}

Android - How to create a Notification with Action

Use the NotificationCompat instead of Notification like this:

Notification.Action action = new NotificationCompat.Action(icon, title, pendingIntent);
Notification notification = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context)
       .addAction(action)
       .build();

NotificationCompat.Builder deprecated in Android O

It is mentioned in the documentation that the builder method NotificationCompat.Builder(Context context) has been deprecated. And we have to use the constructor which has the channelId parameter:

NotificationCompat.Builder(Context context, String channelId)

NotificationCompat.Builder Documentation:

This constructor was deprecated in API level 26.0.0-beta1. use
NotificationCompat.Builder(Context, String) instead. All posted
Notifications must specify a NotificationChannel Id.

Notification.Builder Documentation:

This constructor was deprecated in API level 26. use
Notification.Builder(Context, String) instead. All posted
Notifications must specify a NotificationChannel Id.

If you want to reuse the builder setters, you can create the builder with the channelId, and pass that builder to a helper method and set your preferred settings in that method.

Notification Builder does not create the notification

Found out the answer.

My phone is Oreo. I had to use notification channels. The answers mentioned here worked perfectly fine on the emulator which had a lower version.

Used [GitHub] (https://github.com/tutsplus/android-o-how-to-use-notification-channels) for reference.

Thank you all for your answers.

How to create Notification.contentView in android Nougat and above?

Answer my own question:

Create contentView by Notification.Builder:

builder.createContentView();

Create contentView by Notification:

Notification.Builder.recoverBuilder(context, notification).createContentView();

Since Notification.Builder.createContentView() was introduced in api level 24, so the above code can only be called from Nougat 7.0 or newer devices; For a lower version phones, it's always safe to reference non-null Notification.contentView directly, it's created automatically by the android system after builder.build() was called.

How exactly to use Notification.Builder

This is in API 11, so if you are developing for anything earlier than 3.0 you should continue to use the old API.

Update: the NotificationCompat.Builder class has been added to the Support Package so we can use this to support API level v4 and up:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/app/NotificationCompat.Builder.html

Notification not showing in Oreo

In Android O it's a must to use a channel with your Notification Builder

below is a sample code :

// Sets an ID for the notification, so it can be updated.
int notifyID = 1; 
String CHANNEL_ID = "my_channel_01";// The id of the channel. 
CharSequence name = getString(R.string.channel_name);// The user-visible name of the channel.
int importance = NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_HIGH;
NotificationChannel mChannel = new NotificationChannel(CHANNEL_ID, name, importance);
// Create a notification and set the notification channel.
Notification notification = new Notification.Builder(MainActivity.this)
            .setContentTitle("New Message")
            .setContentText("You've received new messages.")
            .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_notify_status)
            .setChannelId(CHANNEL_ID)
            .build();

Or with Handling compatibility by:

NotificationCompat notification =
        new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
        .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.notification_icon)
        .setContentTitle("My notification")
        .setContentText("Hello World!")
        .setChannelId(CHANNEL_ID).build();

Now make it notify

NotificationManager mNotificationManager =
            (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
 mNotificationManager.createNotificationChannel(mChannel);

// Issue the notification.
mNotificationManager.notify(notifyID , notification);

or if you want a simple fix then use the following code:

NotificationManager mNotificationManager =
            (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
       mNotificationManager.createNotificationChannel(mChannel);
    }

Updates:
NotificationCompat.Builder reference

NotificationCompat.Builder(Context context)

This constructor was deprecated in API level 26.0.0
so you should use

Builder(Context context, String channelId)

so no need to setChannelId with the new constructor.

And you should use the latest of AppCompat library currently 26.0.2

compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.0.+"

Source from Android Developers Channel on Youtube

Also, you could check official Android Docs

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