Soft notifications

Soft notifications are pop-up reminders that are displayed on the device home screen. They are used to inform the user of events that have taken place while the user was away or busy with another application. In MIDlets, soft notifications are supported on Symbian devices with Nokia UI API 1.2 or newer.

To create soft notifications, use the SoftNotification class of the Nokia UI API. A single soft notification is displayed as ungrouped, while multiple soft notifications are grouped into a list, as shown in the following figures.

Figure: Ungrouped soft notification and two grouped soft notifications

For detailed instructions on how to use soft notifications in a MIDlet, see article How to use SoftNotification API in Java ME in the Nokia Developer Wiki.