Sending a notification from a service in Android
Both Activity and Service actually extend Context so you can simply use this as your Context within your Service. NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Service.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE); Notification notification = new Notification(/* your notification */); PendingIntent pendingIntent = /* your intent */; notification.setLatestEventInfo(this, /* your content */, pendingIntent); notificationManager.notify(/* id */, notification);