AndroidTV get notification icon

Question

Im trying to get the icon of active notification on AndroidTV. I need to encode it to base64 and send it to react native.

The icon is stored as blob type and decoded looks like this

android.graphics.drawable.Icon  com.android.systemui/

which looks like just a path to the icon, but i would need to get the real icon and encode it to base 64.

Im retrieving data like this:

private static final Uri NOTIF_CONTENT_URI = Uri.parse(
            "content://com.android.tv.notifications.NotificationContentProvider/" +
                    "notifications");

final String[] projection = { TITLE, TEXT, SMALL_ICON};

Cursor c = _reactContext.getContentResolver().query(NOTIF_CONTENT_URI, projection, null,
                null, null);

if (c != null && c.moveToFirst()) {
     do {
         String title = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(TITLE));
         String text = c.getString(c.getColumnIndex(TEXT));
         byte[] smallIconBytes = c.getBlob(c.getColumnIndex(SMALL_ICON));
     } while (c.moveToNext());
}

Getting title and text works fine, but encoding the icon bytes to base64 returns

HgAAAGEAbgBkAHIAbwBpAGQALgBnAHIAYQBwAGgAaQBjAHMALgBkAHIAYQB3AGEAYgBsAGUALgBJAGMAbwBuAAAAAAACAAAAFAAAAGMAbwBtAC4AYQBuAGQAcgBvAGkAZAAuAHMAeQBzAHQAZQBtAHUAaQAAAAAALwUIAQAAAAAFAAAA

which can be decoded to

android.graphics.drawable.Icon  com.android.systemui/

How can I get that icon and not just the path? Thank you.

Answer 1

private static Icon getIconFromBytes(byte[] blob) {
        Parcel in = Parcel.obtain();
        Icon icon = null;
        if (blob != null) {
            in.unmarshall(blob, 0, blob.length);
            in.setDataPosition(0);
            icon = in.readParcelable(Icon.class.getClassLoader());
        }

        in.recycle();
        return icon;
}