Solution by Malcolm works fine with API>=9. Here's the solution for older API:
The trick is to create the standard notification object and then traverse the default contentView
created by Notification.setLatestEventInfo(...)
. When you find the right TextView, just get the tv.getTextColors().getDefaultColor()
.
Here's the code that extracts the default text color and text size (in scaled density pixels - sp).
private Integer notification_text_color = null;
private float notification_text_size = 11;
private final String COLOR_SEARCH_RECURSE_TIP = "SOME_SAMPLE_TEXT";
private boolean recurseGroup(ViewGroup gp)
{
final int count = gp.getChildCount();
for (int i = 0; i < count; ++i)
{
if (gp.getChildAt(i) instanceof TextView)
{
final TextView text = (TextView) gp.getChildAt(i);
final String szText = text.getText().toString();
if (COLOR_SEARCH_RECURSE_TIP.equals(szText))
{
notification_text_color = text.getTextColors().getDefaultColor();
notification_text_size = text.getTextSize();
DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
WindowManager systemWM = (WindowManager)getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
systemWM.getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
notification_text_size /= metrics.scaledDensity;
return true;
}
}
else if (gp.getChildAt(i) instanceof ViewGroup)
return recurseGroup((ViewGroup) gp.getChildAt(i));
}
return false;
}
private void extractColors()
{
if (notification_text_color != null)
return;
try
{
Notification ntf = new Notification();
ntf.setLatestEventInfo(this, COLOR_SEARCH_RECURSE_TIP, "Utest", null);
LinearLayout group = new LinearLayout(this);
ViewGroup event = (ViewGroup) ntf.contentView.apply(this, group);
recurseGroup(event);
group.removeAllViews();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
notification_text_color = android.R.color.black;
}
}
Call extractColors
ie. in onCreate() of your service. Then when you're creating the custom notification, the color and text size you want are in notification_text_color
and notification_text_size
:
Notification notification = new Notification();
RemoteViews notification_view = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.notification);
notification_view.setTextColor(R.id.label, notification_text_color);
notification_view.setFloat(R.id.label, "setTextSize", notification_text_size);