How to put media controller button on notification bar?

Question

I am creating a music player application. I want to show the media controller on notification bar while my application is running in background. It looks like Google player.

How to do this?

Answer 1

For getting media player controller in your app simply follow this:

Call this method in your MainActivity

public void showNotification(View view){
        new MyNotification(this);
        finish();
    }

Create a new MynotificationClass

public class MyNotification extends Notification {

private Context ctx;
private NotificationManager mNotificationManager;

@SuppressLint("NewApi")
public MyNotification(Context ctx){
    super();
    this.ctx=ctx;
    String ns = Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE;
    mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager) ctx.getSystemService(ns);
    CharSequence tickerText = "Shortcuts";
    long when = System.currentTimeMillis();
    Notification.Builder builder = new Notification.Builder(ctx);
    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
    Notification notification=builder.getNotification();
    notification.when=when;
    notification.tickerText=tickerText;
    notification.icon=R.drawable.ic_launcher;

    RemoteViews contentView=new RemoteViews(ctx.getPackageName(), R.layout.messageview);

    //set the button listeners
    setListeners(contentView);

    notification.contentView = contentView;
    notification.flags |= Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT;
    CharSequence contentTitle = "From Shortcuts";
    mNotificationManager.notify(548853, notification);
}

public void setListeners(RemoteViews view){
    //radio listener
    Intent radio=new Intent(ctx,HelperActivity.class);
    radio.putExtra("DO", "radio");
    PendingIntent pRadio = PendingIntent.getActivity(ctx, 0, radio, 0);
    view.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.radio, pRadio);

    //volume listener
    Intent volume=new Intent(ctx, HelperActivity.class);
    volume.putExtra("DO", "volume");
    PendingIntent pVolume = PendingIntent.getActivity(ctx, 1, volume, 0);
    view.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.volume, pVolume);

    //reboot listener
    Intent reboot=new Intent(ctx, HelperActivity.class);
    reboot.putExtra("DO", "reboot");
    PendingIntent pReboot = PendingIntent.getActivity(ctx, 5, reboot, 0);
    view.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.reboot, pReboot);

    //top listener
    Intent top=new Intent(ctx, HelperActivity.class);
    top.putExtra("DO", "top");
    PendingIntent pTop = PendingIntent.getActivity(ctx, 3, top, 0);
    view.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.top, pTop);*/

    //app listener
    Intent app=new Intent(ctx, com.example.demo.HelperActivity.class);
    app.putExtra("DO", "app");
    PendingIntent pApp = PendingIntent.getActivity(ctx, 4, app, 0);
    view.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.btn1, pApp);
}

}

Create a HelperActivity class

public class HelperActivity extends Activity {

private HelperActivity ctx;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    ctx = this;
    String action = (String) getIntent().getExtras().get("DO");
    if (action.equals("radio")) {
        //Your code
    } else if (action.equals("volume")) {
        //Your code
    } else if (action.equals("reboot")) {
        //Your code
    } else if (action.equals("top")) {
        //Your code
    } else if (action.equals("app")) {
        //Your code
    }

    if (!action.equals("reboot"))
        finish();
}

@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onDestroy();
}
}

XML layout for Notificationlayout.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/msglbl"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="test" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/message"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/msglbl" />

<Button
    android:id="@+id/btn1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="play" android:layout_margin="10dp"/>

</RelativeLayout>