How to implement startforeground without the deprecated Notification class?

Question

I got how to implement the startforeground deom this thread Android - implementing startForeground for a service?

And this works also, but the Notification is mentioned as deprecated, how to implement this with the new one ? Please help

Answer 1

I just ran into the same problem. The solution is quite simple though.

Use the NotificationCompat.Builder to create the Notification, as only the Notification constructor is deprecated not the whole class.

Example:

NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat
        .Builder(getApplicationContext());
builder.setContentTitle("Updating...");
builder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_search);

startForeground(NOTIFICATION_ID, builder.build());