How to get the music player buttons on Android wear like google play music

Question

I have created a notification with normal and expanded view having player controls identical to google play. However, i dont see the notification with play controls on the android wear.

I have tried to build notification with actionButtons rather than remoteViews. Now i am able to see every action as a separate card on wear. But i want the look like the google play on wear. I saw similar screen for VLC player too.

Please help.

Answer 1

1. You can create custom notification like I described here Android Wear : Custom Notifications

2. but best solution I think is to create full screen application for wear. you can check google sdk sample or github how to do it https://github.com/mauimauer/AndroidWearable-Samples/tree/master/SkeletonWearableApp

and send message to wear from phone when you need to open it. Good way to open wear activity from android phone you can find in DataLayer sample app.

Answer 2

Android Wear automatically builds media notifications with play controls when you register a RemoteControlClient or its Android 5.0 replacement, MediaSession, using the transport flags you provide to determine which buttons to show and how responses get sent to your app.