Android 5.1 push notification icon is blank

Question

When using Parse for push notifications our app always displayed the application\'s launcher icon. In the latest Android 5.1 version, the icon appears to be blank (a white squar

Answer 1

Although @Pelanes has the correct answer (and should be accepted), here's what I did. Note that the Parse docs for getSmallIconId state the following:

Retrieves the small icon to be used in a Notification. The default implementation uses the icon specified by com.parse.push.notification_icon meta-data in your AndroidManifest.xml with a fallback to the launcher icon for this package. To conform to Android style guides, it is highly recommended that developers specify an explicit push icon.

So it is not entirely necessary to override the getSmallIconId() and getLargeIcon() methods.

What I did to solve the problem was I just made a copy of my icon, punched transparent "holes" into the icon, and set the com.parse.push.notification_icon meta-data in my manifest to point to this new icon.

For Android 5.0, it is required for your notification icon to be white and transparent, as others have mentioned. So creating the separate icon is necessary. One line in the manifest and one new drawable file is all it takes.