android.app.RemoteServiceException: Bad notification posted from package. Couldn't expand RemoteViews for: StatusBarNotification

Question

I have implemented custom notification with RemoteViews widget. I tested it on Android 5.0.2 and Android 6.0. It was working fine. But after sometime, it started crashing everytime it received notification from GCM.

Crash Dump -

Process: package.name, PID: 27743
android.app.RemoteServiceException: Bad notification posted from package package.name: Couldn't expand RemoteViews for: StatusBarNotification(pkg=package.name user=UserHandle{0} id=1524095391 tag=null key=0|package.name|1524095391|null|10247: Notification(pri=0 contentView=package.name/0x7f040033 vibrate=null sound=null defaults=0x0 flags=0x10 color=0x00000000 category=recommendation vis=PUBLIC))
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1631)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6077)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:865)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:755)

My layout for RemoteViews have Imageview inside LinearLayout and custom TextView classes which are extending TextView.

My code for creating notification is

    private void showCustomNotification(ABCNotification notification) {
        RemoteViews notificationView = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.layout_notification);
        PendingIntent contentPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(mContext, 0, notification.getContentIntent(), PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

                NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(mContext);
                builder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_notification).setAutoCancel(true).setContentIntent(contentPendingIntent);

                // Set Notification Priority
                builder.setPriority(notification.getNotificationPriority());

                // Set Notification Category
                builder.setCategory(notification.getNotificationCategory());

                // Set Notification Visibility
                builder.setVisibility(notification.getNotificationVisibility());

notificationView.setTextViewText(R.id.tv_notification_title, notification.getTitle());
        notificationView.setTextViewText(R.id.tv_notification_message, notification.getMessage());
        notificationView.setTextViewText(R.id.tv_notification_subtext, notification.getSubtext());
        Notification notif = builder.build();
                if (null != notif) {
                    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT > Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH_MR1) {
                        notif.bigContentView = notificationView;
                    }
                    notif.contentView = notificationView;
                    NotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
                    notificationManager.notify(mNotificationId, notif);
                }
    }

My Layout for RemoteViews is something like this

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical">

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="vertical"
            android:paddingBottom="4dp"
            android:paddingTop="4dp">

            <com.abc.ui.customviews.fonts.TextViewYMRegular
                android:id="@+id/tv_notification_title"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
                android:ellipsize="end"
                android:singleLine="true"
                android:textColor="@color/black"
                android:textSize="16sp" />

            <com.abc.ui.customviews.fonts.TextViewYMMedium
                android:id="@+id/tv_notification_message"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
                android:textColor="@color/black"
                android:textSize="14sp" />

            <com.abc.ui.customviews.fonts.TextViewYMMedium
                android:id="@+id/tv_notification_subtext"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:textColor="@color/black"
                android:textSize="12sp" />
        </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

I have seen almost all the solution on stack overflow. Nothing seems to work.

Funny part is, it was working perfectly before. But started crashing after sometime. All in span of 2 hours.

Answer 1

As commented by Mike, we cannot use custom views even if they are direct descendants of native views.

I was using TextViewYMRegular which was extending TextView. I changed all custom TextViews to native.

We can only use the classes listed here with RemoteViews.