Android notifications actions without opening the app

Question

I want to implement a notification action in JB. But it shouldn't open the app. The behaviour is similar to the Gmail apps delete notification action. How can I do this?

Thanks in advance, Shashika

Solution 1

After some research I managed to achieve this using a broadcast receiver. I posted the example code here. http://shashikawlp.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/android-jelly-bean-notifications-with-actions/

Solution 2

You can also add custom buttons or layouts with onClickEvents to your notification compat (e.g. events which do not open the app ;)):

1. Create a custom RemoteViews Layout and add it to the builder builder.setContent(remoteView);
   
   In this layout you can define Buttons
   
   
2. Set an onClickPendingIntent to your control remoteView.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.button, pendingIntent);
   The PendingIntent can hold a BroadcastReceiver to trigger an action without jumping INTO the app

Happy coding