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

@Nikolai's answer was helpful for me, indeed it was the problem. I had the same issue. There are specific controls that can be used in the notification. I had a View in my layout for notification as below.

<View
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_weight="0.04"/>

This was causing the crash. Following Layouts and controls are supported:

As per this official documentation.

I removed it and it worked fine. Hope it helps someone.

Answer 2

i see the is alot of trouble related to this topic, in my case this problem was caused by using

android:background="?attr/selectableItemBackground" 

i used that on my ImageButton and each time my app crashed but when i removed it, everything was fine, i guess the problem is you should not use any custom View type or any theme attributes on your views, i hope this will help another stuck with this problem

Answer 3

For me the problem was on NotificationCompat.Builder.addAction the icon i set for action not compatible with all devices . I use Andriod Studio -> File -> New -> Image Asset to generate the icon then it fine .