Android notification icon color is not changed when background color is white

Question

I upgraded android 6.0 and my app have problem.

when the status bar background color is not white, notification icon is good. (notification icon png has white and al

Answer 1

It's late to answer, but for others who have the same problem,

I had this problem too and I found that the problem is with graphical icon. You can solve the problem by using this online tool. open this link:

https://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/icons-notification.html#source.type=image&source.space.trim=1&source.space.pad=0&name=ic_stat_call_white

choose your image ( with large dimension ), download the resource and copy them to your project.

and finally set the notification icon using .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ICON_NEW_NAME)

hope this helps

Answer 2

I think the problem lies in device android 5.0 or high.

https://developer.android.com/design/patterns/notifications.html
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-5.0-changes.html

Here is a solution:

Notification notification = new Notification.Builder(context)
        .setAutoCancel(true)
        .setContentTitle("My notification")
        .setContentText("Look, white in Lollipop, else color!")
        .setSmallIcon(getNotificationIcon())
        .build();

return notification;

and method getNotificationIcon():

private int getNotificationIcon() {
    boolean useWhiteIcon = (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP);
    return useWhiteIcon ? R.drawable.icon_black : R.drawable.ic_nomarl;
}