Hide service from notifications

[Ian Alexander]

Hi,

I'm currently making an app with kivy which runs a background service to give the user a notification on a daily schedule.

To run the service I'm using AndroidService from python for android (see below)

if platform == 'android':

            from android import AndroidService

            service = AndroidService('ocean drops service', 'running')

            service.start('service started')

            self.service = service

However the problem is that when the service is started, a permanent notification is added to the users notification tray whilst the service is running.

My question is:

Using python for android is there anyway to start the service without creating this permanent notification?

Or alternatively should I use Pyjnius to implement this?

Thanks!

Ian