Android- download file + status bar notification slowing down phone

Question

I currently have an asynctask which downloads a mp3 from a server. When the user starts to download it, a status bar notification is created. This displays the prog

Answer 1

I saw similar results, you need to not push the update the notification so often, i changed mine to update only update a few times a second. (e.g. in onProgressUpdate keep track of the last time you called notify, and only call notify if you're past 100ms of the previous call, or if you're at the max value.