My app plays music and when users open notifications screen by swiping from the top of the screen ( or generall from the bottom right of the screen on tablets ), i want to present them a button to stop the currently playing music and start it again if they want.
I am not planning to put a widget on user's homescreen, but just into notifications. How can i do this?
Add action button to notification
Intent snoozeIntent = new Intent(this, MyBroadcastReceiver.class);
snoozeIntent.setAction(ACTION_SNOOZE);
snoozeIntent.putExtra(EXTRA_NOTIFICATION_ID, 0);
PendingIntent snoozePendingIntent =
PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, snoozeIntent, 0);
NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder = new
NotificationCompat.Builder(this, CHANNEL_ID)
.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.notification_icon)
.setContentTitle("My notification")
.setContentText("Hello World!")
.setPriority(NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_DEFAULT)
.setContentIntent(pendingIntent)
.addAction(R.drawable.ic_snooze, getString(R.string.snooze),
snoozePendingIntent);
For more details visit
https://developer.android.com/training/notify-user/build-notification.html
You can create an intent for the action (in this case stop playing)and that add it as an action button to your notification.
Intent snoozeIntent = new Intent(this, MyBroadcastReceiver.class);
snoozeIntent.setAction(ACTION_SNOOZE);
snoozeIntent.putExtra(EXTRA_NOTIFICATION_ID, 0);
PendingIntent snoozePendingIntent =
PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, snoozeIntent, 0);
NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this, CHANNEL_ID)
.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.notification_icon)
.setContentTitle("My notification")
.setContentText("Hello World!")
.setPriority(NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_DEFAULT)
.setContentIntent(pendingIntent)
.addAction(R.drawable.ic_snooze, getString(R.string.snooze),
snoozePendingIntent);
Please refer to the Android Documentation here
// It shows buttons on lock screen (notification).
Notification notification = new Notification.Builder(context)
.setVisibility(Notification.VISIBILITY_PUBLIC)
.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.NotIcon)
.addAction(R.drawable.ic_prev, "button1",ButtonOneScreen)
.addAction(R.drawable.ic_pause, "button2", ButtonTwoScreen)
.....
.setStyle(new Notification.MediaStyle()
.setShowActionsInCompactView(1)
.setMediaSession(mMediaSession.getSessionToken())
.setContentTitle("your choice")
.setContentText("Again your choice")
.setLargeIcon(buttonIcon)
.build();
Please refer this for more details Click here
I will try to provide a solution that I have used and most of the music player also use the same technique to show player controls in notification bar.
I am running a service which is used to manage Media Player and all its controls. Activity User control interacts with Service by sending Intents to the service for example
Intent i = new Intent(MainActivity.this, MyRadioService.class);
i.setAction(Constants.Player.ACTION_PAUSE);
startService(i);
TO receive intents and perform action in Service class I am using following code in onStartCommand method of Service
@Override
public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
if (intent.getAction().equals(Constants.Player.ACTION_PAUSE)) {
if(mediaPlayer.isPlaying()) {
pauseAudio();
}
}
Now to exact answer to your question to show notification with playing controls. You can call following methods to show notification with controls.
// showNotification
private void startAppInForeground() {
// Start Service in Foreground
// Using RemoteViews to bind custom layouts into Notification
RemoteViews views = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(),
R.layout.notification_status_bar);
// Define play control intent
Intent playIntent = new Intent(this, MyRadioService.class);
playIntent.setAction(Constants.Player.ACTION_PLAY);
// Use the above play intent to set into PendingIntent
PendingIntent pplayIntent = PendingIntent.getService(this, 0,
playIntent, 0);
// binding play button from layout to pending play intent defined above
views.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.status_bar_play, pplayIntent);
views.setImageViewResource(R.id.status_bar_play,
R.drawable.status_bg);
Notification status = null;
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
status = new Notification.Builder(this).build();
}
status.flags = Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT;
status.icon = R.mipmap.ic_launcher;
status.contentIntent = pendingIntent;
startForeground(Constants.FOREGROUND_SERVICE, status);
}
Hope this really helps you. And you will be able to achieve what you want. Have a Happy Coding :)