How to create a status bar icon on the right side? (Android)

Question

Notification and NotificationManager are used to create icons to be placed on the top-left position of the screen. A Notification also need to have an entry on the status bar pull-down.

However, icons on the right side such as the battery, signal strength, wireless indicators do not need any entry on the status bar.

How do I make such icons without any entry in the status bar pull-down?

Eurythmics

Possible duplicate of How to create a Notification \ status bar icon on the right side? – Echoechoic

Answer 1

I believe the right side area of the notification bar is reserved for the OS.

Becky

Google Japanese Input displays A or あ icon on the right side. It is not a system application, and it did both on a 4.4.2 Samsung device and on a 5.1.1 Nexus device. So there must be some kind of API. – Stunt

Note that I wrote this answer in 2010. If there is a way to do this in newer versions of Android, feel free to add that as a new answer. – Becky

Answer 2

Why would you accept the above answer . . . if you take the android source and build it yourself then setting the icon on the right side isn't impossible. I've Started a new Question with this check here How to create a Notification \ status bar icon on the right side?

Emelina