Displayed Icon in Notification Drawer

Question

I'd like to ask if it's possible to use the LargeIcon as the displayed icon in the notification drawer when it's not scrolled down.

Explicit:

NotificationCompat.Builder warningBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);
Bitmap appWarningIcon = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(),
    R.drawable.alert_warnings_yellow);
warningBuilder.setLargeIcon(appWarningIcon); // I want this Icon to be displayed in the disabled notification drawer
warningBuilder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher); //but currently this one is displayed
warningBuilder.setContentTitle("Warning: ");
warningBuilder.setContentText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.alert_warning_message)));
warningBuilder.setLights(Color.YELLOW, 500, 500);
warningBuilder.setVibrate(new long[] {
    100, 250, 100, 250, 100, 250
});
warningBuilder.setStyle(new NotificationCompat.BigTextStyle()
    .bigText(Html.fromHtml(getString(R.string.alert_warning_message))));
NotificationManager warningNotificationManager =
    (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
warningNotificationManager.notify(4, warningBuilder.build());

I know that this setup is the default option from the NotificationBuilder but is there a way to avoid this behaviour? If my question isn't explicit enough please don't hestitate in asking detailed questions.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

AFAIK there's no way to use a Bitmap for the small icon but you could just do a:

warningBuilder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.alert_warnings_yellow);

If you want to use a different small icon in the expanded layout than in the ticker style notification (when the notification drawer is closed) then you'd need to use a custom layout for the notification:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html#CustomNotification

There are plenty of examples on how to create your own notification layout on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=android+custom+notification+layout