Android NotificationManager giving me "no valid small icon" error

Question

I am having a strange error with notification manager.

@Override
public void onMessageReceived(String from, Bundle data)
{
     Log.i(TAG, "IP : " + (String) data.get("ip"));
     NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
     Intent acceptNextIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.BROADCAST_KEY_ACCEPT);
//        acceptNextIntent.putExtra("ip", (String) data.get("blah")); //add stuff here
     PendingIntent acceptNextPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, acceptNextIntent, 0);

     Intent declineNextIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.BROADCAST_KEY_DECLINE);
     PendingIntent declineNextPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, declineNextIntent, 0);

     NotificationCompat.Action acceptAction = new NotificationCompat.Action
                .Builder(R.drawable.common_signin_btn_icon_disabled_focus_light, "Grant Request", acceptNextPendingIntent).build();

     NotificationCompat.Action declineAction = new NotificationCompat.Action
                .Builder(R.drawable.common_signin_btn_icon_focus_dark, "Decline Request", declineNextPendingIntent).build();

     NotificationCompat.Builder notification = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
                .setContentTitle("New Password Request From " + (String) data.get("ip"))
                .addAction(acceptAction)
                .addAction(declineAction);

     notificationManager.notify(1, notification.build()); //ERROR HERE

Error Message:

9.474 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application I/MyGcmListenerService: IP : 128.239.213.39
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: AsyncTask #1
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime: Process: com.inh.amnesia_application, PID: 9327
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid notification (no valid small icon): Notification(pri=0 contentView=com.inh.amnesia_application/0x1090085 vibrate=null sound=null defaults=0x0 flags=0x0 color=0x00000000 actions=2 vis=PRIVATE)
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime:     at android.app.NotificationManager.notify(NotificationManager.java:222)
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime:     at android.app.NotificationManager.notify(NotificationManager.java:194)
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime:     at com.inh.amnesia_application.MyGcmListenerService.onMessageReceived(MyGcmListenerService.java:65)
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime:     at com.google.android.gms.gcm.GcmListenerService.zzt(Unknown Source)
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime:     at com.google.android.gms.gcm.GcmListenerService.zzk(Unknown Source)
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime:     at com.google.android.gms.gcm.GcmListenerService.zza(Unknown Source)
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime:     at com.google.android.gms.gcm.GcmListenerService$1.run(Unknown Source)
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime:     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1113)
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime:     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:588)
11-10 19:49:59.477 9327-9371/com.inh.amnesia_application E/AndroidRuntime:     at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

Does this mean that the icons I am trying to access does not exist? I am not sure how to interpret this error and searching this error message does not yield anything.

Disposal

Answer 1

You're actually not setting an icon for the push notification. Add .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.your_icon) to your notification.

 NotificationCompat.Builder notification = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
            .setContentTitle("New Password Request From " + (String) data.get("ip"))
            .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.your_icon)
            .addAction(acceptAction)
            .addAction(declineAction);

Jarrell

I have found the source code , it seems only target api > lolipop will have the error. – Pyromagnetic

I'm getting this error using Notification to set the LEDs, in which case the icon should be irrelevant as it's not displayed... – Huberthuberto

Answer 2

You have not called setSmallIcon() on the NotificationCompat.Builder. This provides the icon that will go in the status bar while the Notification is active.

Javierjavler

Hi,@CommonsWare, I added a notification on a Service and called setSmallIcon(). But still getting same error Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid notification (no valid small icon) – Donelu

@AGMTazim: I suggest that you ask a separate Stack Overflow question, where you provide a minimal reproducible example, including the code where you create the Notification and the resulting stack trace. Perhaps there is an issue with the drawable resource that you are using with setSmallIcon(). – Javierjavler

Answer 3

According to the Android NotificationManager Source Code

if (mContext.getApplicationInfo().targetSdkVersion > Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP_MR1) {
    if (notification.getSmallIcon() == null) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid notification (no valid small icon): "
                + notification);
    }
}

This error only happened when you set target API > LOLLIPOP_MR1(22) and notification do not have a small icon.

Pyromagnetic

Answer 4

This suddenly started happening to my application. After some research, I found this change in my manifest file actually started causing it.

from:

  <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="21" />

to:

  <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="21" android:targetSdkVersion="28" />

I saw somewhere that somebody noted that it only checks for the icon if the target sdk version is set. Sure enough, in the source, there is this :

if (mContext.getApplicationInfo().targetSdkVersion > Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP_MR1) {
    if (notification.getSmallIcon() == null) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid notification (no valid small icon): "
                + notification);
    }
}

Luckily, the solution was simple, just define the icon in the manifest:

  <application android:label="MyApp" android:icon="@mipmap/icon" >

Rhoea