Execute code when Android notification is canceled

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I've done some searching and have been unable to find anything even closely related.

When a user cancels a notification in Android (by swiping the notification to one side of the screen), does anyone know of clean way to detect this? I think it would be a rather handy feature in an app to be able to cancel a notification and have the app recognize this and mark something as read in the app instead of clicking the notification and opening the app to mark something as read.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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Came across this question today. It looks like the second answer has an interesting solution to detect if a notification is still shown or not. This works for pre API 11 devices. Any device running API 11 or newer can use the setDeleteIntent() to fire a PendingIntent when the notification is cleared.

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answered Apr 18 '12 at 16:01

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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Luke's answer helped me with this. Thanks!

I also found this setDeleteIntent() example which I share for everyone's reference.

how to use delete intent to perform some action on clear notification?

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answered Jul 16 '14 at 11:14

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 18 '12 at 06:03

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If you mean, how to detect the swipe action for the sliding drawer which is used in the Notification bar, It's not possible dude...

answered Apr 18 '12 at 06:03

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I think you're talking about opening the notification bar, but my question was about canceling a notification. – Luke Apr 18 '12 at 06:09
you mean, clearing a notification ? – Manjunath Apr 18 '12 at 06:10
yes. clearing, canceling same thing. – Luke Apr 18 '12 at 06:15
Try Overriding cancel() of NotificationManager class – Manjunath Apr 18 '12 at 06:20
I don't think that would be of much use or work. That might be useful if you wanted to do some additional work when you call .cancel() in your app, but I don't think you would be able to discover when the notification was canceled/cleared by the user by overriding it. – Luke Apr 18 '12 at 06:30
Then, I don't know dude. But I had replied you referring this link : https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/android-developers/5y9DFmzX79w – Manjunath Apr 18 '12 at 06:34
Looks like it isn't possible then... – Luke Apr 18 '12 at 06:40

Execute code when Android notification is canceled

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