Android notification height and width

Question

I'm making an app that displays a custom notification in the notification bar, and would like to show the user a preview of their notification from inside the activity that creates the notification.

Is there a way through the Android API to get the height in pixels, or dip of a notification, so that I can match what the notification would look like as accurately as possible? Or does anyone know the height of notifications in Android 3.0 and later?

Answer 1

the default notification bar height is 38 in hdpi, 25 in mdpi and 19 in ldpi

Answer 2

You can create an xml layout for that notification, and that way control how big it is. Details can be found here.

Answer 3

These guidelines from the official documentation will answer questions regarding which sizes a developer should use. Methods to get the actual size of a Drawable can be found here.