New message icons

[tennislvr8]

I am losing my mind....I have three email accounts and each account has its own new message icon that appears in the notification bar.  Can someone please remind me how to change, add or delete these, for the life of me I cannot remember how I selected the one I selected.  Is it based on account color, i.e my blue account will have a blue icon??? PLEASE HELP and THANKS!

[Kostya Vasilyev]

>> When app icon is selected (displayed on status bar), message notification appear "open" very briefly, then close, preventing the user the access to actions.
When app icon is not displayed, notification details stay visible


It's Android's automatically collapsing the notification and hiding action buttons. This is how it's always worked since Android 4.1 -- apparently they think that scrolling is bad or wrong somehow.

You can get the action buttons to show if you pinch-zoom-out on the notification. Yes, terrible UI, but that's not under my app's control in any way.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

>> Account notification icon color always in white

Android 5.0.

http://www.aqua-mail.com/forum/index.php?topic=3063.msg14639#msg14639

http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-5.0-changes.html#BehaviorNotifications

The system draws notification icons in white and action icons in dark gray.

And I just learned about setColor -- new in 5.0 -- will make a note to use that. Will only affect *expanded* notifications (including the lock screen).

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Done. App settings -> icon color is gone, and account options -> icon color is gone.

Instead, when running on 5.0, it will use the account's color (if set), or the accent color (if set), or the app's default "material blue".

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Android 5.0 makes status bar icons black and white.

Any color already present in the icon is removed.

By the system. Intentionally.

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Now, this only applies to apps marked as "compatible with Android 5.0" -- but Aqua is marked like this, and I need it for other reasons.

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To summarize -- Google wants all status bar icons to be purely black and white. And they have the means to enforce it, so they do.