Custom notification

[hacker1024]

Is there any way to use a custom notification?

[ryanheise]

Do you mean something like remote views?

Note that audio_service uses NotificationCompat.MediaStyle to render a standard media-style notification and so it's currently limited by whatever customisation that offers.

Right now, it provides the following customisations:

• Media description (title/subtitle/etc)
• Actions
• Artwork or background colour
• Notification channel name

The short term goal would be to support all of the common customisations first, to the extent that that is possible with MediaStyle. Once they are all known, an informed decision can be made on how to integrate more advanced requirements into the plugin.

[hacker1024]

Yeah, I meant standard MediaStyle customisations.

[ryanheise]

Are there any customisations in MediaStyle that you want supported in addition to the ones listed above?

[hacker1024]

I don't know if this is already enabled, but an option to enable the colorized setting?

[ryanheise]

If you mean a setting that will pick a colour from the supplied artwork to use as the background colour, I believe that is what MediaStyle does by default when you provide the artwork.

[hacker1024]

Another thing -
In the notification, it shows the song name, and then the artist on the second line. It would be nice to have an option to make the second line show "$artist - $album".

[hacker1024]

Also, there should also be a notification channel description parameter.

[alexantenna]

If you mean a setting that will pick a colour from the supplied artwork to use as the background colour, I believe that is what MediaStyle does by default when you provide the artwork.

Is this supported by the plugin? What should we do to utilize such effect?

[hacker1024]

Is this supported by the plugin? What should we do to utilize such effect?

It's actually a feature build in to Android, and it's on by default.

[hacker1024]

Is there a way to choose which actions to show in the collapsed notification?

[alexantenna]

It's actually a feature build in to Android, and it's on by default.

Damn, what's wrong with my notifications? :-) If notificationColor is omitted in AudioService.start my notification is just plain white (with artwork displayed). If notificationColor is provided notification is filled with the color.

[hacker1024]

The feature was only added in 8.0.

[hacker1024]

You could achieve a similar effect with the Palette tool, but since the library only supports setting the notification colour once, that's not currently possible.

[alexantenna]

The feature was only added in 8.0.

And my phone has 8.0. Looks like Huawei messed these things up in their EMUI 8.0 firmware, will wait for the 8.1 or 9.0 upgrade :-(

[hacker1024]

There's no way to choose which actions to show in the collapsed mode. That's kinda important, as usually the most important controls aren't the first three.

[ryanheise]

On the request to format the second line as "$artist - $album", I've added some overrides in MediaItem to specify what you would like to be displayed on the first and second lines in the notification. They are displayTitle and displaySubtitle. These are handled natively by Android and I believe the way they work is that you have to at least specify displayTitle for any of them to take effect. So in your case you could do MediaItem(artist: artist, album: album, title: title, displayTitle: title, displaySubtitle: "$artist - $album", etc...).

For the option to set which controls show in the compact view, I've added a new property MediaControl.androidShowInCompactView.

[hacker1024]

I don't need to use this personally, but I feel like we should be able to set the order of the compact notification actions as well.

[ryanheise]

That's fair. If I do that, I wouldn't want to do it both ways, so the androidShowInCompactView property would disappear and I'd add a parameter to AudioServiceBackground.setState to specify the list of indices to include in the compact view. Would you be happy with that change?

[hacker1024]

That would be great, thanks.

[ryanheise]

The new parameter androidCompactActions for setState is now included in Release 0.0.14.

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