Convert String to Drawable

Question

I want to raise a notification showing an icon in the status bar - so far so good, but actually I would like this icon to be a 3 character String.

So my question is: Is

Answer 1

I have used a workaround and it worked properly for me.

First i convert the string to bitmap and then convert it to a drawable, here is the code:

byte [] encodeByte=Base64.decode(":",Base64.DEFAULT);
Bitmap bitmap=BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(encodeByte, 0, encodeByte.length);      
Drawable d = new BitmapDrawable(bitmap);

Hope it helps!