Switching Android notification from FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT to cancelable

Question

I have an ongoing task and after it finishes, I want the notification to become cancelable.

For that, I create a new notification with notification.flags as zero, but the notification keeps being un -cancelable.

Answer 1

Apparently, FLAG_FOREGROUND_SERVICE prevented the notification from turning into cancelable, even after reseting the flags.

After removing FLAG_FOREGROUND_SERVICE and using only 0 or FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT , the notification could be made cancelable or un-cancelable - respectively.

Answer 2

Please take a look here : Android update notification

In short what you will do is this:

• Create your notification first time and assign a notification ID to it.
• Once your service is done executing create a new cancelable notification with the same id
• fire that notification, it should make the previous notification cancelable .