How do I edit the text of foreground service notifications?

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This discussion focuses on modifying the text of foreground service notifications in Android applications. The user initially attempted to change the notification title and text using the Notification.Builder class but encountered issues where the changes did not reflect. The solution was identified as the necessity of setting an icon using the .setSmallIcon method, which allowed the notification text to update correctly. This highlights the importance of including all required parameters when configuring notifications in Android.

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I'd like to run a timer in a foreground notification. I thought I could use the setContextText command for this, but it doesn't change the text in the notification at all.
Hi everyone

I'd like to make a timer that continues to run on the lock screen after the power button is pressed. I thought I could use a foreground notification for this and used code from this page:

In particular, I thought I could modify the following lines of code:

[CODE lang="java" title="notification"] Notification.Builder notification = new Notification.Builder(this, CHANNELID)
.setContentText("Activity Recognition is running....")
.setContentTitle("Obesity Point");[/CODE]

However, it seems setContentText and setContentTitle do nothing. No matter what I put in the quotation marks, my notification title is " Timer is running" and the text is "Tap for more information or to stop the app".

How do I change the text and title?

Thanks
 
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Nevermind. The problem was that I didn't set an icon with .setSmallIcon. The text changes now that I've done that.
 
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