[SOLVED] Notification not showing in menubar - Android Software Development

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I can't find any informations about why it works from the activity and not from a service. In fact, in the very first lines of the official docs it is suggested that Services use Notifications instead of Activities (which already have the attention of the user).
Any help/previous experience?

Dumb mistake: the code was not being called because the service name was missing the leading "." in AndroidManifest.xml

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(http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#substring(int, int))
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