How to reset notificationmanager number on notification clear

Question

What's the best way to clear the notification number when the user clicks on the notification? I say the best way, but really I haven't found ANY way. I'm launching a built in activity when the user clicks on the notification, not something I wrote so I can't clear it that way. I've got the notification manager's flag set to clear

   NotificationManager notification
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    notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;
    notification.number++;
    nm.notify(1,notification);

But whatever I do the Notification.number keeps going up and never resets to 0.

Answer 1

You could use an intermediary activity which is part of your app and thus can reset your variable and then start the internal activity.

So the chain would be

Notification --starts--> Intermediary Activity --starts--> Built-in activity