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I'm trying to set my notification status bar icon as animated android.R.drawable.stat_sys_upload, it works fine, but the icon do not animate:

private void showStatusNotification() { NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE); Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this); notificationBuilder.setAutoCancel(false); notificationBuilder.setOngoing(true); notificationBuilder.setContentIntent(PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, new Intent(this, MainActivity.class), PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT)); notificationBuilder.setContentTitle(getString(R.string.notification_title)); notificationBuilder.setContentText(getString(R.string.notification_text)); notificationBuilder.setSmallIcon(android.R.drawable.stat_sys_upload); notificationManager .notify(STATUS_NOTIFICATION_ID, notificationBuilder.build()); }
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The solution is simple, but very tricky. You just need to add 

notificationBuilder.setTicker(getString(R.string.notification_ticker));

the magic happens and your icon is animated. It is related to this bug:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15657

Hope it helps someone.

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Just to add to @gingo's answer, in case you don't want any text to be shown in the status bar then keep your notification_ticker String as blank in strings.xml (which is quite obvious).

Also, if you want the animated icon to stop after the progress or download/ upload has completed then set a similar looking icon to your notificationBuilder and call the notify method on the notification manager as,

 mBuilder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_download); mNotifyManager.notify(0, mBuilder.build());
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