Can I make a Notification to specific apps on Android Studio? - java

I'm making an app that relies on the content of an specific group of apps.
I want to know if it's possible And I want to make a notification when the user opens one app of that group just to remind him to update my app.
I want to know if it is possible somehow to list these specific apps. For the notification not to appear in all apps.
I don't have much experience on Android Studio. And I never made a notification system on my apps.

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http://developer.android.com/training/run-background-service/index.html
And a stackoverflow question about background services:
Creating Background Service in Android
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Is it at all possible to create an App Widget programmatically from within an Android app itself?
That would depend completely upon what you mean by this.
I'm rather lost on how to do this and Googling so far has led me to believe that it is not possible (that an App Widget and an App itself has to be separate applications).
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So, would it be possible to dynamically create an App Widget from within an Android App?
Again, you seem to think that the world knows what you mean by "dynamically", forcing us to guess.
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