Couldn't expand RemoteViews for: StatusBarNotification

Question

This question has been asked before but none of the answers helped me hence posting my case.

I am trying to build a custom notification using a layout file. But I get the following error:

android.app.RemoteServiceException: Bad notification posted from package com.eswaraj.app.eswaraj: Couldn't expand RemoteViews for: StatusBarNotification(pkg=com.eswaraj.app.eswaraj user=UserHandle{0} id=8888 tag=null score=0: Notification(pri=0 contentView=com.eswaraj.app.eswaraj/0x7f030052 vibrate=null sound=null defaults=0x0 flags=0x0 kind=[null]))

My layout file is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="left">

<com.makeramen.RoundedImageView
    android:id="@+id/nImage"
    android:layout_width="100dp"
    android:layout_height="100dp"
    android:src="@drawable/profile_image"
    android:padding="15dp"
    android:scaleType="fitCenter"
    app:riv_corner_radius="30dip"
    app:riv_border_width="2dip"
    app:riv_border_color="#333333"
    app:riv_mutate_background="true"
    app:riv_oval="true"/>

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/nTitle"
    android:text="eSwaraj: Your voice is heard"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/nImage"
    android:paddingTop="12dp"
    android:textSize="20dp"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/nMessage"
    android:layout_below="@+id/nTitle"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/nImage"
    android:text="Your comaplaint viewed"
    android:textSize="15dp"
    android:paddingTop="5dp"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/nTime"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/nImage"
    android:layout_below="@+id/nMessage"
    android:textSize="13dp"
    android:paddingTop="5dp"
    android:text="12:23PM"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</RelativeLayout>

And I am sending notification as follows:

public void sendNotification(Context caller, Class<?> activityToLaunch, Bitmap icon,   GcmMessageDto gcmMessageDto, int id) {
        Intent toLaunch;
        RemoteViews remoteViews = new RemoteViews(caller.getPackageName(), R.layout.notification);
        if(activityToLaunch != null) {
            toLaunch = new Intent(caller, activityToLaunch);
       }
       else {
            toLaunch = new Intent();
        }
        PendingIntent intentBack = PendingIntent.getActivity(caller, 0, toLaunch, 0);

        NotificationManager notifier = (NotificationManager) caller.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder =
                new NotificationCompat.Builder(caller)
                    .setSmallIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_notification_overlay)
                    .setContentIntent(intentBack);

        remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.nMessage, gcmMessageDto.getMessage());
        remoteViews.setTextViewText(R.id.nTime, new Date().toString());
        if(icon != null) {
            remoteViews.setImageViewBitmap(R.id.nImage, icon);
        }
        mBuilder.setContent(remoteViews);

        notifier.notify(id, mBuilder.build());
    }

Any help would be appreciated.

score 20 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 02 '15 at 21:18

Shortly put, the

com.makeramen.RoundedImageView

is messing with your job.

Not all views can be used in RemoteViews which are used for building custom notifications. According to this official page only the following can be used for creating RemoteViews:

FrameLayout
LinearLayout
RelativeLayout
GridLayout
AnalogClock
Button
Chronometer
ImageButton
ImageView
ProgressBar
TextView
ViewFlipper
ListView
GridView
StackView
AdapterViewFlipper

So you must find a workaround for your modified ImageView class and use plain ImageView instead.

In my case, I was using `AppCompatImageView`. Switching to `ImageView` solved the issue. — iTurki, Sep 06 '17 at 09:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 02 '18 at 12:23

0

I also had the same issue, i was using a custom TextView, resorting to stock TextView solved my problem.

answered Apr 02 '18 at 12:23

Pradeep Vig

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6
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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 17 '18 at 20:29

I had a same issue. As according to the accepted answer there are specific controls that can be used in the notification. I had a View in my layout for notification as below.

<View
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_weight="0.04"/>

This was causing the crash. I removed it and it worked fine. Hope it helps someone.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 25 '20 at 14:03

0

I had the same issue while using a Constraint Layout and then I just followed the documentations https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html#CreatingLayout and changed to Linear Layout and it worked.

answered Nov 25 '20 at 14:03

Danc-0

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Please add some additional information from the link, as the link itself might break in the future – Asad-ullah Khan Nov 25 '20 at 19:53

Couldn't expand RemoteViews for: StatusBarNotification

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