How to prevent notification bar from closing upon notification action click

Question

In my app i have notification with pause/play action, however, when user clicks on the action, notification bar is closing. How can i prevent notification bar from closing upon action click?

Method which creates notifcation:

public void createNotification() {
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
        PendingIntent pIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, (int) System.currentTimeMillis(), intent, 0);

        Intent intent2 = new Intent(this, IntentActivity.class);
        intent2.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK);
        pIntent2 = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, (int) System.currentTimeMillis(), intent2, 0);

        builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context);
        Notification noti = builder
                .setAutoCancel(true)
                .setContentTitle("Title")
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher)
                .setContentIntent(pIntent)
                .setPriority(Notification.PRIORITY_MAX)
                .setStyle(new NotificationCompat.BigTextStyle().bigText("Czas trwania: " + time + "\nKalorie: 4kcal"))
                .addAction(icon, actionString, pIntent2).build();

        notificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
        notificationManager.notify(0, noti);
    }

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 20 '16 at 09:09

3

change your code from

setAutoCancel(true)

to

setAutoCancel(false)

answered Dec 20 '16 at 09:09

Avinash Saran

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I think i didn't make my self clear, I want to prevent notification drawer from hiding upon action click. I need setAutoCancel(true) to dismiss notification when user clicks on it (on the notification not notification's action) – Michał Witanowski Dec 20 '16 at 09:12
@user1852879 Try this. – Vishal Chhodwani Dec 20 '16 at 09:14
I tried it and the drawer is still closing when i setAutoCancel(false), it only keeps the notification alive when user clicks on it. – Michał Witanowski Dec 20 '16 at 09:20

Anrimian · Answer 2 · 2021-07-01T09:09:58.057

I solved a similar problem.

For every notification action used PendingIntent. It seems that if you create PendingIntent from PendingIntent.getActivity(...) - it closes notification. If you create from PendingIntent.getService(...) or from PendingIntent.getBroadcast(...) - notification remains.

So if you want to start activity from notification and don't hide notification: send intent to Service or send broadcast, then start activity from there.

But from there starts another problem: launched activity displays under notification and I don't know how to bring it to top.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 20 '16 at 09:16

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While building Notification by NotificationBuilder you can use builder.setAutoCancel(false);.

answered Dec 20 '16 at 09:16

Chandrahasan

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 19 '19 at 10:36

I'm kinda late to the party but it might help others facing this topic.

As Anrimian pointed out, building PendingIntent via getActivity(Context, int, Intent, int) closes the notification panel upon action click and there is not much you can do about it as far as i know, it's just how it works.

But building the PendingIntent with getBroadcast(Context, int, Intent, int) or getService(Context, int, Intent, int) does what you are looking for.

So let's say you build a PendingIntent as follows:

val playIntent = Intent("ACTION_PLAY_INTENT")
val requestCode = 1
val playPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, requestCode, playIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT)

Then you need to add the PendingIntent to NotificationCompat.Builder with:

.addAction(icon, actionString, playPendingIntent)

In your activity you can declare a receiver like this:

private val playBroadcastReceiver = object : BroadcastReceiver() {
    override fun onReceive(context: Context?, intent: Intent?) {
        // parse your actions here...
    }
}

Finally you can register by:

registerReceiver(playBroadcastReceiver, IntentFilter("ACTION_PLAY_INTENT"))

The result is that you perform actions without closing the notification panel. I've tested this approach also with RemoteViews and works just fine.

How to prevent notification bar from closing upon notification action click

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