Adding android push notification icon in codenameone app

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I'm using the parse4cn1 to enable push notifications for my cn1 app (with a hosted parse server called back4app). I want to add a custom icon for the notification tray in Android, and I need to add a line to the <application> section of the manifest.xml file:

<meta-data android:name="com.parse.push.notification_icon" android:resource="@drawable/push_icon"/>

Where do I put the png file within the cn1 project structure?

Codename One supports such icons in the native push as far as I recall. No idea about parse4cn1. Either way I added the tag to parse4cn1 so this will draw the right attention — Shai Almog, Mar 21 '16 at 03:33
This is not a parse4cn1 question per se: It's an issue of where CN1 expects resources specified in the manifest to be placed in the folder hierarchy. I searched a bit online but couldn't find a clear answer. @ShaiAlmog: Can you provide a pointer? — netsuite_insights, Mar 21 '16 at 11:46
PS: Adding the meta data tag should work using [build hint](http://www.codenameone.com/manual/advanced-topics.html) `android.xapplication` — netsuite_insights, Mar 21 '16 at 11:46
Should have scrolled down to https://www.codenameone.com/manual/advanced-topics.html#build_hints_in_cn1libs you can just add the two files to the cn1lib. We discussed this in the blog too a while back https://www.codenameone.com/blog/deprecations-simplified-cn1lib-installs-theme-layering.html — Shai Almog, Mar 22 '16 at 03:37
Sorry, Shai, I didn't understand your answer. I need the png file to be added to the res/drawable-xhdpi directory in the android source. Is there are a way to do this without just downloading the project's android source code and building myself? — ygesher, Mar 26 '16 at 21:32
That's unrelated to us. We support our standard push notification API I have no idea what parse uses. — Shai Almog, Apr 06 '16 at 02:55
@ShaiAlmog the original question is where to place a file within the project structure so that it will be placed in a drawables directory in the native Android project? — ygesher, Apr 06 '16 at 05:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '16 at 03:49

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AFAIK this is currently unsupported but is probably something we should support as we do support it for sound files and XML files. I suggest filing an RFE in the issue tracker asking for this.

answered Apr 08 '16 at 03:49

Shai Almog

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

The correct answer has already been posted here on SO by Hen Fishbein, one of the co-founders of CodenameOne, but for some reason it was very hard for me to find, so I'm reiterating it:

Put a file named ic_stat_notify.png in the src/ folder of the project. The icon should conform to the Android guidelines for such icons, as stipulated in the docs. The official recommendation is to add 5 differently-sized icons for the various screen density buckets, all of them being 24 dp, with a 22 dp area for the icon and 2 dp of padding. The CodenameOne project only allows one file, so I recommend making it 72 pixels, which corresponds to the xhdpi bucket.

Adding android push notification icon in codenameone app

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