how to add pause/play button to notification in Lollipop?

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I have service which plays the radio & creates a notification. The notification must incude title, text, time & a button(pause/play). I have added rest of the things & notification is getting displayed. But I'm not sure about how to add the button to the notification. On searching, I found I can use RemoteView, RemoteControlClient & MediaStyles. But RemoteControlClient & MediaStyles are used when there is a media file playing with all buttons(previous,pause,play,back). So I'm really confused about it. Can anyone suggest me, which one to use to add buttons in the notification for Lollypop.

use remote views and follow the link http://www.androidbegin.com/tutorial/android-custom-notification-tutorial/ — Ramesh, Feb 06 '15 at 05:03
recently we implemented notification in one application with remote views.Its working fine in lollipop also — Ramesh, Feb 06 '15 at 05:17
use custom notification with remote views - http://www.skholingua.com/android-basic/advance-topics/notifications — chiru, Feb 06 '15 at 05:25

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 20 '17 at 14:23

First you need to know addAction is deprecated in 23 API, read this to relate

Call showNotification() method to show notification

 private void showActionButtonsNotification() {


        Notification.Builder notif;
        NotificationManager nm;
        notif = new Notification.Builder(getApplicationContext());
        notif.setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher);
        notif.setContentTitle("Hi there!");
        notif.setContentText("This is even more text.");
        Uri path = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
        notif.setSound(path);
        nm = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);

        Intent yesReceive = new Intent();
        yesReceive.setAction(MyNotificationReceiver.RESUME_ACTION);
        PendingIntent pendingIntentYes = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, MyNotificationReceiver.REQUEST_CODE_NOTIFICATION, yesReceive, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
        notif.addAction(R.drawable.resume, "resume", pendingIntentYes);


        Intent yesReceive2 = new Intent();
        yesReceive2.setAction(MyNotificationReceiver.STOP_ACTION);
        PendingIntent pendingIntentYes2 = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, MyNotificationReceiver.REQUEST_CODE_NOTIFICATION, yesReceive2, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
        notif.addAction(R.drawable.stop, "stop", pendingIntentYes2);




        Intent maybeReceive2 = new Intent();
        maybeReceive2.setAction(MyNotificationReceiver.CANCEL_ACTION);
        PendingIntent pendingIntentMaybe2 = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, MyNotificationReceiver.REQUEST_CODE_NOTIFICATION, maybeReceive2, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
        notif.addAction(R.drawable.cancel, "cancel", pendingIntentMaybe2);


        assert nm != null;
        nm.notify(MyNotificationReceiver.REQUEST_CODE, notif.getNotification());


    }

Create MyNotificationReceiver class to recive the clicks

    public class MyNotificationReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
        public static int REQUEST_CODE_NOTIFICATION = 1212;
        public static int REQUEST_CODE = 10;
        public static final String RESUME_ACTION = "RESUME_ACTION";
        public static final String STOP_ACTION = "STOP_ACTION";
        public static final String CANCEL_ACTION = "CANCEL_ACTION";

        @Override
        public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
            String action = intent.getAction();

            Log.e("action", action);

            if (intent.getAction() != null) {
                switch (intent.getAction()) {
                    case RESUME_ACTION :
                        Toast.makeText(context, "resume", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
// you resume action
                        break;
                    case STOP_ACTION :
                        Toast.makeText(context, "stop", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
// you stop action
                        break;
                    case CANCEL_ACTION:
                        Toast.makeText(context, "cancel", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
// you cancel action
                        break;
                }
            }
        }



    }

Finally, add receiver to your manifests

<receiver android:name=".MyNotificationReceiver">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="RESUME_ACTION"/>
                <action android:name="STOP_ACTION"/>
                <action android:name="CANCEL_ACTION"/>

            </intent-filter>
        </receiver>

how to add pause/play button to notification in Lollipop?

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