phonegap-plugins/Android/StatusBarNotification

StatusBarNotification plugin for Phonegap

Plugin allows you to display notifications in the status bar from your PhoneGap application.

Adding the Plugin to your project

Using this plugin requires Android PhoneGap.

1. To install the plugin, move statusbarnotification.js to your project's www folder and include a reference to it in your html file after phonegap.js.

   <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="phonegap.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="statusbarnotification.js"></script>

2. Create a directory within your project called "src/com/phonegap/plugins/statusBarNotification" and move StatusBarNotification.java into it.

3. Add the following activity to your AndroidManifest.xml file. It should be added inside the <application> tag.

   <activity android:name="com.phonegap.DroidGap" android:label="@string/app_name">
   <intent-filter>
   </intent-filter>
   </activity>

4. In your res/xml/plugins.xml file add the following line:

   <plugin name="StatusBarNotification" value="com.phonegap.plugins.statusBarNotification.StatusBarNotification"/>

Using the plugin

The plugin creates the object window.plugins.statusBarNotification. To use, call one of the following, available methods:

  /**
   * Displays new status bar notification
   * 
   * @param notificationTitle	The url to load
   * @param notificationBody	Load url in PhoneGap webview [optional] - Default: false
   */
   
  notify(notificationTitle, notificationBody);

Sample use:

window.plugins.statusBarNotification.notify("Put your title here", "Put your message here");