Using NotificationCompat for Beautiful Notifications (Android Development Patterns Ep 2)

You should also learn about Notification Channels: https://youtu.be/zGIw4MIJn5o

NotificationCompat gives you a single API for building notifications for your Android app, including support for Android Wear and Android Auto extensions.

We go through the required parts of a notification, go through improvements such as color and a large icon, then enhance a notification with expanded notification styles, actions, WearableExtender for Android Wear specific improvements, and CarExtender for Android Auto specific improvements.

There’s also more you can do with Android Wear using WearableExtender including:
Add pages of content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7aJPyvHPgs
Stack notifications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4LvKOTkZ7Q

Android Auto improvements can be added with CarExtender including:
Messaging APIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSVLuaOTIPk

#notifications #compatibility #ui

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