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>
Create a directory within your project called "src/com/phonegap/plugins/statusBarNotification" and move StatusBarNotification.java into it.
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>
In your res/xml/plugins.xml file add the following line:

<plugin name="StatusBarNotification" value="com.phonegap.plugins.statusBarNotification.StatusBarNotification"/>
You will need to add a nofication.png file to you applications res/drawable-ldpi, res/drawable-mdpi & res/drawable-hdpi directories.
You will need to add an import line like:

import com.my.app.R;

Where com.my.app is your applications package name in order for this to compile.

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");

License

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