I want to implement stacked notifications on Android Wear To do that I create 1 summary notification and N individual notifications for each "item". I want only the summary to be shown on the phone. Here's my code:
private void showNotifications() {
NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager)getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
showNotification1(notificationManager);
showNotification2(notificationManager);
showGroupSummaryNotification(notificationManager);
}
private void showNotification1(NotificationManager notificationManager) {
showSingleNotification(notificationManager, "title 1", "message 1", 1);
}
private void showNotification2(NotificationManager notificationManager) {
showSingleNotification(notificationManager, "title 2", "message 2", 2);
}
protected void showSingleNotification(NotificationManager notificationManager,
String title,
String message,
int notificationId) {
NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);
builder.setContentTitle(title)
.setContentText(message)
.setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher)
.setGroupSummary(false)
.setGroup("group");
Notification notification = builder.build();
notificationManager.notify(notificationId, notification);
}
private void showGroupSummaryNotification(NotificationManager notificationManager) {
NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);
builder.setContentTitle("Dummy content title")
.setContentText("Dummy content text")
.setStyle(new NotificationCompat.InboxStyle()
.addLine("Line 1")
.addLine("Line 2")
.setSummaryText("Inbox summary text")
.setBigContentTitle("Big content title"))
.setNumber(2)
.setSmallIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher)
.setCategory(Notification.CATEGORY_EVENT)
.setGroupSummary(true)
.setGroup("group");
Notification notification = builder.build();
notificationManager.notify(123456, notification);
}
This works just fine on Android 5.1, only the summary is shown in the phone's notification bar:
But on Android 4.4 it also shows individual notifications 1 and 2:
In both cases notifications on Android Wear are shown in a stack, as desired. How do I make Android 4.4 only show the summary notification in the notification bar?
Fixed this by using
NotificationManagerCompat notificationManager = NotificationManagerCompat.from(this);
instead of
NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager)getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
and replacing NotificationManager with NotificationManagerCompat in corresponding method signatures.