Is it possible to support Android Pre-JellyBean and Post-JellyBean Notifications?

Question

Is it possible to do something like this?:

not = AndroidCheck.isJellyBeanOrLater() ? notB.build() 
                        : notB.getNotification();

this turn out error on .build() because it is a JellyBean(API16) and later method and .getNotification() is a early to JellyBean method.

API MinVersion=10 Version=17

the objective is: the android version is early to JellyBean it uses .getNotification() deprecated method, if not it uses the actual .build() method.

Can you please try to help me? =)

thks

Answer 1

You can use NotificationCompat.Build from the Support Library to create Notifications that work on all platform levels.

Answer 2

You must put the call to .build() in a seperate class. Once Android loads the class with the call to the new API on an older Android Version Phone -> you get a RuntimeError.

Check this out:

http://code.google.com/p/android-change-log/source/browse/trunk/src/sheetrock/panda/changelog/ChangeLog.java?spec=svn52&r=52

See lines 39-41, 144-145 (here is the call to the newer API), 324-341