android notification icon is a white circle?

So this is weird but when I send a notification using Mixpanel (without any customizations, only a title and body) the notification icon is simply a white circle. When I send to the same token but using firebase console the icon I’ve defined in AndroidManifest.xml shows correctly.

What is the cause of this?

<!-- AndroidManifest.xml -->

<service android:name="com.mixpanel.android.mpmetrics.MixpanelFCMMessagingService" android:enabled="true" android:exported="false">
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="com.google.firebase.MESSAGING_EVENT"/>
  </intent-filter>
</service>

<meta-data android:name="com.google.firebase.messaging.default_notification_icon" android:resource="@drawable/ic_stat_notification" />
<meta-data android:name="com.google.firebase.messaging.default_notification_color" android:resource="@color/colorPrimary" />

[oussamaraboija]

I created a notification icon from Android studio image asset too named it '" ic_notification ", and in Mixpanel I specify ic_notification I still get notification as app icon by default, I also tried @drawable/ic_notification and it didn’t work, how exactly do you specify a resource name? Am I missing a step?

[anjalsaneen]

@oussamakenzup I’m facing the same issue. I have tried to understand mixpanel code. the implementation can break due to multiple reasons

@patedit I have a couple of questions?

1. How could mixpanel able to read resource id from another package? it can break apps which are having proguard, right?
2. it can break due to applicationId isn’t the same as the package. right?
3. When I check mDrawableIds.knownIdName(iconName) inside mixpanel SDK it always returning false even though the resources inside mixpanel sdk module?

@aforty

I agree with you. setting icon explicitly is a very bad idea considering the chances of failures here and no proper details on the developer docs. there has to be a default icon option.