how to delete a android notification?

Question

I want to push a notification to the user every X minutes.

However if there already exist an unread notification,

I want to delete it and replace it with a new one. How can I delete?

How can I check how many unread notification my app has already pushed?

possible duplicate of [Android: remove notification from notification bar](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3595232/android-remove-notification-from-notification-bar) — rpax, Mar 08 '14 at 20:27

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 09 '14 at 06:12

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To replace an existing notification with a new one you should simply post a notification with the same id, this behavior is mentioned in the documentation of NotificationManager's notify() method. If you want to just remove a notification, call cancel() providing the id you used to start it.

Regarding counting the number of notifications your app has sent, I think the best solution would be to just store a counter and increment it once a notification has been sent.

edited Mar 09 '14 at 06:12

Elad Benda

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answered Mar 08 '14 at 20:32

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btw, is there any way I can detect (1) a notification wasn't read yet? (2) the user deleted the notification without reading? – Elad Benda Mar 12 '14 at 00:19

how to delete a android notification?

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