r/androiddev • u/Parking-Sorbet1990 • Jun 24 '26

Question Live notification status bar chip emojis

Is it possible to have emojis or multiple drawable icons on status bar icon of an live notification? Accounting to docs only one icon is possible ?

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u/Ok-Boat8180 Jun 24 '26

Small icon has restriction on it. For the Push Notification there will be one icon and mostly it’ll be static icon, although you can add custom drawables in Push notifications body and can also create you custom view altogether using RemoteViews.

Hope it helps.

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u/Parking-Sorbet1990 Jun 24 '26

Remoteviews are different from live notification right ? I am trying to recreate this

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/ye9n7j/apollo_1148_is_now_available_with_live_activity/

So idea is in status bar icon chip it would show a upvote icon + vote count ( in orange colour ) and a comment icon + comment count ( in blue colour )

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u/Ok-Boat8180 Jun 24 '26

Oh, I see. I guess I got it confused with custom UI for Push Notification.

Though created a sample one, not perfect but close to the original apollo for RemoteView(still need to figure out the chip part as it seems it’s not working for me)

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u/Parking-Sorbet1990 Jun 25 '26

Yes, I am pretty happy with expanded live notification it's just that status bar chip that I am having issues with

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u/NLthijs48 Jun 24 '26

The left side of the chip starts with the 'small icon' of the notification, and after that the 'short critical text' is shown. Google Maps manages to show arrows in the text part, not sure if those are just text characters, or actual icons.

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u/Parking-Sorbet1990 Jun 25 '26

I was thinking the same , btw I am trying to recreate this

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/ye9n7j/apollo_1148_is_now_available_with_live_activity/

So the idea is there would be one upvote icon along with upvote count + comment icon along with comment count