Notifications and Background Tasks

Question 1

What is a Pending Intent?

Answer 1

Pending is a wrapper around an intent that is designed to be used by another application. By giving a PendingIntent to another application, you are granting it the right to perform the operation you have specified as if the other application was yourself (with the same permissions and identity)

Question 2

How can we cancel all notifications?

Answer 2

get the notification manager and call cancelAll on that?

Question 3

How can we get the NotificationManager?

Answer 3

by calling context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);