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

Have you looked at the API Demos > App > Notifications > Status Bar?

If you have limited number of String options (like Smileys) you can create drawables for each of those Strings.