RemoteServiceException is thrown when posting notification from service with xml drawable as small icon on android 4.4.4.
Wrapping xml drawable in <layer-list> drawable has no effect.

Library used support-v4, appcompat-v7
Version used: 23.2
Theme used: Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar
Devices/Android versions reproduced on:
Sony Xperia Z3 Table Compact(SGP621)/Android 4.4.4

- Relevant code to trigger the issue.
//R.drawable.notification_icon - xml drawable resource
Notification notification = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.notification_icon)
.setContentTitle("Notification")
.setContentText("Text")
.build();
startForeground(NOTIFICATION_ID, notification);

FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.example:remote, PID: 11352
android.app.RemoteServiceException: Bad notification posted from package com.example: Couldn't create icon: StatusBarIcon(pkg=com.example user=0 id=0x7f020140 level=0 visible=true num=0 )
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1413)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:212)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5137)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:902)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:718)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)