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Impossible to read gmail notification

I'm using the notification listener api to read notification information but it seems impossible to read the text of a Gmail notification. Here what adb says:

extras={
        android.title=john
        android.support.actionExtras={0=Bundle[EMPTY_PARCEL], 1=Bundle[EMPTY_PARCEL]}
        [email protected]
        android.showChronometer=false
        android.icon=2130837727
        android.text=MyText
        android.progress=0
        android.progressMax=0
        android.showWhen=true
        android.people=[Ljava.lang.String;@b1564718 {
          mailto:[email protected]
        }
        android.largeIcon=android.graphics.Bitmap@b15c6130 (128x128)
        android.infoText=null
        android.wearable.EXTENSIONS=Bundle[mParcelledData.dataSize=1200]
        android.progressIndeterminate=false
        android.scoreModified=false
      }

With other notification it works. Any tips? I'm reading the notification in this way:

String text = extras.getString(Notification.EXTRA_TEXT);
Solution

  • Ok problem solved. The information about the notification are stored as CharSequence so you have to get it with getCharSequence(). Since String implements the CharSequence interface it's possible that it works but not always. However using CharSequence it works.