Chapter 14
Updating the Android Status Bar
In This Chapter
Understanding the status bar
Working with Android’s notification manager
Updating and clearing notifications
Throughout this book, you discover various ways to grab the user’s attention by using dialog boxes, toast messages, and new activities. Though these techniques work well in their respective situations, at other times you need to inform the user of something — without stealing his attention from the current activity. That’s the purpose of the status bar.
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