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Nick
Nick

Reputation: 3494

Reliable way of retrieving StatusbarNotification details (title, notification text)

I'd like to get as much information out of a StatusBarNotification-object as possible. Right now, the only "reliable" information that can be accessed is the tickerText-property. I'm using the following code to get the notification's title and text via RemoteViews, but a lot of the time, the title and/or text will simply be null :-(:

    //Get the title and text
    String mTitle = "";
    String mText = "";
    try {
        RemoteViews remoteView = sbn.getNotification().contentView;
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        ViewGroup localView = (ViewGroup) inflater.inflate(remoteView.getLayoutId(), null);
        remoteView.reapply(getApplicationContext(), localView);
        TextView tvTitle = (TextView) localView.findViewById(android.R.id.title);
        TextView tvText = (TextView) localView.findViewById(16908358);
        mTitle = (String)tvTitle.getText();
        mText = (String)tvText.getText();
    } catch (Exception e){
        Log.e(TAG, "Error getting notification title/text: " + e);
    }

Is there any alternative (more reliable) way? I could "hand-code" the resource IDs for "popular" notifications like Gmail, SMS, etc., but this may break at any time when those apps are updated. Thanks!

Upvotes: 14

Views: 8042

Answers (2)

nguoitotkhomaisao
nguoitotkhomaisao

Reputation: 1245

With Android 4.4(KitKat), API Level 19 you can use Notification.extras attibute to get Notification title,text,....

http://gmariotti.blogspot.com/2013/11/notificationlistenerservice-and-kitkat.html

Upvotes: 4

alanv
alanv

Reputation: 24124

Checking resource IDs is actually how TalkBack, the Android screen reader, parses notification types. It attempts to load IDs directly from various packages.

Check the source on Google Code for a full example. Here is a snippet:

private static int ICON_GMAIL;

private static boolean sHasLoadedIcons = false;

private static void loadIcons(Context context) {
    ...

    ICON_GMAIL = loadIcon(context, "com.google.android.gm",
        "com.google.android.gm.R$drawable", "stat_notify_email");

    sHasLoadedIcons = true;
}

public static NotificationType getNotificationTypeFromIcon(Context context, int icon) {
    if (!sHasLoadedIcons) {
        loadIcons(context);
    }

    ...

    if (icon == ICON_GMAIL) {
        return NotificationType.EMAIL;
    }
}

Upvotes: 3

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