Auto Cancel Custom Notification using RemoteView

Question

I have created a custom layout notification using remoteview. Problem I'm facing is, How to autoCancel the notification once the user touches it. I did try few things, but none is giving desired result.

Find Code below:

RemoteViews remoteView = new RemoteViews(this.getPackageName(), R.layout.notification_layout);      
    NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(MainActivity.this);
    builder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_launcher);

    Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, SecondActivity.class);

    PendingIntent pIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(MainActivity.this, RQST_CODE, intent, PendingIntent.FLAG_CANCEL_CURRENT);
    remoteView.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.btnNotification, pIntent);

    builder.setAutoCancel(true);
    builder.setContent(remoteView); 
    Notification notify = builder.build();
    notify.flags |= Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;
    NotificationManager notiManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
    notiManager.notify(NOTY_ID, notify);

Answer 1

The way I achieved this is by creating BroadcastReceiver which controls button clicks from Notification. Create something like this :

public class NotificationButtonListener extends BroadcastReceiver {

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        int action = intent.getIntExtra("mode", -1);
        switch (action) {
            // do some things depending on action if there are more stuff to do
        }
    }
}

Don't forget to add your BroadcastListener to your manifest file:

<receiver android:name=".NotificationButtonListener">

And you can create a helper class for creating and cancelling notification:

public class NotificationHelper {

    private static final int NOTIFICATION_ID = 5;

    private static NotificationManager mNotificationManager = null;

    public static void showNotification(Context context) {

        mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);

        RemoteViews contentView = new RemoteViews(context.getPackageName(), R.layout.custom_notification_layout);
        contentView.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.btn_close, closePendingIntent);

        Intent mMainIntent = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
        mMainIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
        PendingIntent mMainPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 555, mMainIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

        NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context)
                .setTicker("Playing")
                .setContent(contentView)
                .setAutoCancel(false)
                .setOngoing(true)
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_av_play)
                .setContentIntent(mMainPendingIntent);

        Notification notification = mBuilder.build();

        mNotificationManager.notify(NOTIFICATION_ID, notification);

    }

    public static void cancelNotification() {
        if (mNotificationManager != null) {
            mNotificationManager.cancelAll();
        }
    }
}

And using that class in your NotificationButtonListener you can call NotificationHelper.cancelNotification(); .

Hope this helps you!

Answer 2

For others who have a custom layout and want auto cancel to work, If clicking anywhere on notification is ok, then don't use remoteView.setOnClickPendingIntent. Because any view with OnClick Listener overrides the notification main OnClick Listener.

Use setContentIntent instead:

NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(context);
builder.setContentTitle("title");
builder.setContentText("contect");
builder.setSmallIcon(@smallicon);
builder.setWhen(@when);
builder.setContent(remoteViews);
builder.setContentIntent(onClickPendingIntent); // use this
builder.setAutoCancel(true);