title: Notification Icon with the new Firebase Cloud Messaging system
body: <p>Yesterday Google presented at Google I/O the new notification system based on the new Firebase. I tried this new FCM ( Firebase Cloud Messaging ) with the example on Github.</p>
  
  <p><strong>The icon of the notification is always the <em>ic_launcher</em> despite I have declared a specific drawable</strong></p>
  
  <p>Why ? 
  Here below the official code for handling the message</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class AppFirebaseMessagingService extends FirebaseMessagingService {
  
      /**
       * Called when message is received.
       *
       * @param remoteMessage Object representing the message received from Firebase Cloud Messaging.
       */
      // [START receive_message]
      @Override
      public void onMessageReceived(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {
          // If the application is in the foreground handle both data and notification messages here.
          // Also if you intend on generating your own notifications as a result of a received FCM
          // message, here is where that should be initiated. See sendNotification method below.
          sendNotification(remoteMessage);
      }
      // [END receive_message]
  
      /**
       * Create and show a simple notification containing the received FCM message.
       *
       * @param remoteMessage FCM RemoteMessage received.
       */
      private void sendNotification(RemoteMessage remoteMessage) {
  
          Intent intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
          intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
          PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0 /* Request code */, intent,
                  PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);
  
          Uri defaultSoundUri= RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
  
  // this is a my insertion looking for a solution
          int icon = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT &gt;= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP ? R.drawable.myicon: R.mipmap.myicon;
          NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
                  .setSmallIcon(icon)
                  .setContentTitle(remoteMessage.getFrom())
                  .setContentText(remoteMessage.getNotification().getBody())
                  .setAutoCancel(true)
                  .setSound(defaultSoundUri)
                  .setContentIntent(pendingIntent);
  
          NotificationManager notificationManager =
                  (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
  
          notificationManager.notify(0 /* ID of notification */, notificationBuilder.build());
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>