Android phone gets notification to download video player

Active 1 year, 3 months ago. Viewed 4k times. Improve this question. Aleksandar Marinkovic 93 10 10 bronze badges. Dragisa Dragisic Dragisa Dragisic 2 2 gold badges 9 9 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Most android developers have no idea how it is done in iOS. Where do you want to show that video? You have to send url as notification payload and build proper notification ui in application. DragisaDragisic hey is it done? I need to do the same. Show 2 more comments. Active Oldest Votes.

You can use only widgets that are described in the official documentation As you show in comments as example , it's not a video in the notification, it's a simple image but as I assume, when you click on it, some apps, that can show video by URL or something like that , will be started and showing you content, that's all. Improve this answer. Rahul Raveendran 1, 12 12 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. HeyAlex HeyAlex 1, 1 1 gold badge 11 11 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges.

Not sure but it may be possible. I am searching further about it. Note: If you don't agree you can verify this answer by running this snippet after commenting out the marked line and see the difference. It may take about 5mins to start the severe UI blockage which will heat up your device and may stop functioning. I tried with an S3 mini with Android 4. Builder is used for the same purpose. Note: The reason to write this answer after 3 years of the question is because I wonder that I did not find even a single stackoverflow answer or other blog post handling this serious issue with this very simple solution.

Here is my copy pasted code that you can use directly I use the same code for updating a notification layout which contains two ProgressBars and four TextViews with a frequency of msms. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 10 years, 3 months ago. Active 3 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 14k times. Improve this question. Splitusa Splitusa 1, 7 7 gold badges 31 31 silver badges 51 51 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Yep, you're publishing too many notifications. Sounds good. Would you happen to have some sample code or just an idea of how I can implement it? Well, just add an int variable and before publishProgress, e.

To learn how to add notifications to a group, see Create a Group of Notifications. Starting in Android 8. By categorizing notifications into channels, users can disable specific notification channels for your app instead of disabling all your notifications , and users can control the visual and auditory options for each channel—all from the Android system settings figure Users can also long-press a notification to change behaviors for the associated channel.

On devices running Android 7. Notification settings for Clock app and one of its channels. One app can have multiple notification channels—a separate channel for each type of notification the app issues.

An app can also create notification channels in response to choices made by users of your app. For example, you may set up separate notification channels for each conversation group created by a user in a messaging app. The channel is also where you specify the importance level for your notifications on Android 8. So all notifications posted to the same notification channel have the same behavior.

For more information, see Create and Manage Notification Channels. Android uses the importance of a notification to determine how much the notification should interrupt the user visually and audibly. The higher the importance of a notification, the more interruptive the notification will be. On Android 8. Users can change the importance of a notification channel in the system settings figure On Android 7.

Users can change the importance of each channel on Android 8. All notifications, regardless of importance, appear in non-interruptive system UI locations, such as in the notification drawer and as a badge on the launcher icon though you can modify the appearance of the notification badge. For more information, see how to set the importance.

Starting in Android 5. Notifications still appear in the system UI as normal, unless the user specifies otherwise. Users can can allow notifications through based on system-wide categories left and based on who sent a message or who is calling right.

For example, a payment app might have channels for notifications related to withdrawals and deposits. The user can then choose to allow either withdrawal notifications, deposit notifications, or both when in priority mode.

To properly configure your notifications for these user settings, you must set a system-wide category and channel. A notification is required when your app is running a "foreground service"—a Service running in the background that's long living and noticeable to the user, such as a media player.

This notification cannot be dismissed like other notifications. To remove the notification, the service must be either stopped or removed from the "foreground" state. For more information read Running a service in the foreground.

And if you are building a media player, also read Using MediaStyle notifications with a foreground service. Beginning with Android 8. If your app posts multiple notifications in one second, they all appear as expected, but only the first notification per second makes a sound. However, Android also applies a rate limit when updating a notification. If you post updates to a single notification too frequently many in less than one second , the system might drop some updates.

Since Android 1. NotificationCompat is updated as the platform evolves to include the latest methods. It is important to note that the availability of a method in NotificationCompat does not guarantee that the corresponding feature will be provided on older devices. In some cases calling a newly-introduced API results in a no-op on older devices.

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