I have implemented music player which fires a custom notification when stream audio is playing.
Everything is working and I can play/pause the audio using the button in the notification. The only problem is the image button: it can't change the image on a click of a button to indicate play/pause.
Using remoteViews.setImageViewResource() in RemoteReceiver is not working. The control is done using BroadcastReceiver and this is the code of firing the notification from the player activity:
public void setNotification(String songName){
String ns = Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE;
NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(ns);
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.ic_launcher, null, System.currentTimeMillis());
RemoteViews notificationView = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.notification_view);
notificationView.setImageViewResource(R.id.button1, R.drawable.pause);
notificationView.setTextViewText(R.id.textView1, songName);
//the intent that is started when the notification is clicked (works)
Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this, PlayerActivity.class);
PendingIntent pendingNotificationIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, notificationIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
notification.contentView = notificationView;
notification.contentIntent = pendingNotificationIntent;
Intent switchIntent = new Intent("com.example.test.ACTION_PLAY");
PendingIntent pendingSwitchIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, switchIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
notificationView.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.play_pause, pendingSwitchIntent);
notificationManager.notify(1, notification);
}
The notification.xml content is
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_width="60dp"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:src="@drawable/ic_launcher"
android:id="@+id/imgAppIc" />
<TextView
android:layout_toRightOf="@id/imgAppIc"
android:singleLine="true"
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:layout_marginLeft="7dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit ="marquee_forever"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:layout_width="170dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<ImageButton
android:id="@+id/play_pause"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/play"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
this is the RemoteRecivier class
public class RemoteControlReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
RemoteViews remoteViews = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(),
R.layout.notification_view);
if(action.equalsIgnoreCase("com.example.test.ACTION_PLAY")){
if(mediaplayer.isPlaying()){
mediaplayer.pause();
remoteViews.setImageViewResource(R.id.button1, R.drawable.play);
}
else {
mediaplayer.start();
remoteViews.setImageViewResource(R.id.button1, R.drawable.pause);
}
}
}
}
and finally, the manifest is
<receiver android:name=".RemoteControlReceiver">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.Music.app.ACTION_PLAY" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
<activity android:name="PlayerActivity" />