Notification On Top

[digitalstone]

I have a continious Automagic notification active that updates every minute.
So i would like to have that to run on top of every other notification.
Now Gtask comes along and pushes my Automagic notification down, no matter what priority i seem to give it.
Does anyone have a tip?

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Edit:
Also certain other notifications from various sources override the Automagic notification sometimes.
Which is just annoying. I want its position to stay stable on one position. The top.

[Desmanto]

Do you mean Priority in terms of notification priority? I also has give it priority, but sometimes some google apps (forget which one) can override it to. But I can't reproduce the problem now, wait until I get it again.

It seems system app will always have the higher priority, thus shows up above Automagic. Or maybe the app has the same priority and has lower UID than Automagic (system app will have lower UID too), thus shows up higher.

[digitalstone]

Yes sorry, i forgot to mention that.
With priority i meant the "Priority" setting within action "Notification on Statusbar" which i have set to "Maximum" as you might have guessed.

I named Gtask as an example since that app always seem to have priority above all else.
But Gtask wasn't made by Google (Appest i believe), and so it's a third party app.
So is Whatsapp of course, and those notifications also push Automagic down.

[Desmanto]

At mine, Whatsapp never push automagic down. Probably you set the whatsapp to higher priority too. Try to check the UID of each app. You can use action Init Variable Package Info, select them. Put debug dialog and dig down the variable for the UID. At mine, Automagic is at 10137, while whatsapp at 10160 (the lower it is, seems to have higher priority). I never know how they will stacked when appear together, probably by UID, so let's try to check it.

[digitalstone]

UID Whatsapp = 10096
UID Gtask = 10136
UID Automagic = 10162

So if a lower UID means a higher priority, this seems correct.
But after changing the priority-setting in action "Notification on Statusbar", this number does not change.
I also have looked around in Android settings as well as in-app settings and i can't find a way to alter priority values.
Can't remember ever to have set any priority values as far as notifications go.

[Desmanto]

No UID is assigned on install. That probably means you install Whatsapp first, then Gtask, and Automagic. Or maybe you do clean reinstall, thus Automagic assigned to a higher UID. There seems to be no way to change the UID without breaking so many things. The safest way to do it, is by uninstalling the lower UID app and reinstall it so it is assigned to a new higher UID (but I haven't tested it yet). Clean uninstall will delete all its data, so need to back it up first (using titanium backup or its kind). The other way is to set the Whatsapp and Gtask notification priority to normal, so Automagic is the only one with highest priority.

[digitalstone]

I thought the UID was changable. If notification priority is set by this, then that's really unclean/weird design by Google.
There must be a setting somewhere to simply change this, although i can't find it.
For example: How do you set the Whatsapp and Gtask notification priority to normal?

[Desmanto]

No, that would be security issue. Which mean app can change its own UID to access other app's data without using root privellege. But I just need to know why the notification priority is affected by the UID, can't get any info on this.

At mine, I have mobile manage which can manage all apps notification. There is a notification priority toggle, which I usually don't turn on for any app. For Automagic, I set it to enabled. So try to find yours and set both Whatsapp and Gtask to disabled or Normal priority.

[digitalstone]

Me neither. I get some slight mentioning between UID and notification but nothing specific.
Not sure if i would go as far as to install a separate app jjust for managing notification priority.
I thought this would be (and should be) an easy fix inside Android itself.
So i think i'll leave it at that.
Thanks for the help.