Android: Adding text from textView to status bar

Question

Is it possible to add the String taken from textView to Status Bar. I want to show text constantly , dynamically updated as textView from apps main activity.

TextView message = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
message.setText("This I want to add to status bar");

I mean that notification bar, which is always top of the screen — Borys Zielonka, Oct 26 '13 at 18:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 26 '13 at 19:06

Yes, you can

private static void generateNotification(Context context, String message) {
        int icon = R.drawable.ic_status;
        long when = System.currentTimeMillis();
        NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) context
                .getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        Notification notification = new Notification(icon, message, when);
        String title = context.getString(R.string.app_name); // Here you can pass the value of your TextView
        Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(context, SplashScreen.class);
        notificationIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP
                | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);
        PendingIntent intent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0,
                notificationIntent, 0);
        notification.setLatestEventInfo(context, title, message, intent);
        notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;
        notificationManager.notify(0, notification);
    }

I tried this way, everything is fine, but I also want add value of variable next to icon, on that regular up bar. — Borys Zielonka, Oct 26 '13 at 20:38
use the above method, and get the String of the textview and pass it to the above method. — Yauraw Gadav, Oct 26 '13 at 21:02
yes, but i want to display it all the time, not for a one second. its called the ticker text or something like this — Borys Zielonka, Oct 26 '13 at 21:32

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 26 '13 at 21:15

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TextView message = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1); message.setText("This I want to add to status bar");

ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar(); actionBar.setTittle(message.getText().toString());

That should fix your problem.

answered Oct 26 '13 at 21:15

ksudu94

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Karan Nagpal · Answer 3 · 2013-10-26T19:30:15.390

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Yes it is possible to show text from textview to status bar, you have to create notification And here is the guide on how to update notification text at runtime.

edited Oct 26 '13 at 19:30

answered Oct 26 '13 at 19:24

Karan Nagpal

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