Bad notification posted - Couldn't expand RemoteViews for: StatusBarNotification

Question

I am trying to post a notification with a custom view in the notification area from an IntentService, and getting the Couldn\'t expand RemoteView e

Answer 1

Be careful when using Vector drawables. On pre-Lollipop devices setting an icon through NotificationCompat.Builder methods, like setSmallIcon, will cause this crash. You'll get same crash if using Vector drawables in your custom view.

Answer 2

I got the same error, but the problem for me was the constrain layout. I changed it to Relative Layout to fix the the problem.

Answer 3

In my case, the problem was an inconsistency between the call

setShowActionsInCompactView(0)

And the .addAction calls...The number of actions was different, hence the error

Answer 4

In my case the exception was caused by a regular View in my custom notification layout. Basically, it's because you're allowed to use only certain widgets like TextView, ImageView and so on.

Answer 5

I had the same problem. In my case:

reason -> I used for the builder.setAction(R.drawable.icon,...) function a vectordrawable and I tried also to enable them from support lib but nothing worked. In recent Android systems I do not see action icons, in the others it gives this error.

solution -> I did not find nothing, the only workaround for me is to avoid .xml files for drawables and to use the .png files in all directories hdpi mdpi ldpi..

Answer 6

I was facing same issue in showing custom layout in notification and what i found is:

I was using ConstraintsLayout as a root layout of my custom notification, this is the mistake i was committing. As there are some limitations with constrain layout to be used in android.

Finally i changed my root layout to RelativeLayout and my notification showing perfectly. I have attached my view in below screenshot.