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.
Note: The Series 40 platform provides a stub implementation of the soft notification feature. This means that you can call the associated interface in your MIDlet, but it provides no functionality on Series 40 devices. So, even though you cannot actually use this feature on Series 40 devices, you can compile the MIDlet with the interface calls in place. The stub implementation is supported from Series 40 6th Edition FP 1 onwards. Earlier Series 40 releases do not support this feature in any form.
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 How to use SoftNotification API in Java ME on Forum Nokia.