Question

I need to retrieve some text from a RemoteViews object. It is possible for me to get the LayoutId, but I have no idea how to retrieve text from a TextView that is in this RemoteView (namely a notification).

Also the RemoteView only contains setters, but no getters, so I guess I have to use the LayoutId (somehow).

Can you help me with that? Thanks!

/edit: The reason why I am asking this, is because I have an AccessibilityService that retrieves the notification. Therefore this is the only way of retrieving the value.

/edit2: I use this code for receiving the notification:

@Override
public void onAccessibilityEvent(AccessibilityEvent event) {
    if (event.getEventType() == AccessibilityEvent.TYPE_NOTIFICATION_STATE_CHANGED) {
        List<CharSequence> notificationList = event.getText();
        for (int i = 0; i < notificationList.size(); i++) {
            Toast.makeText(this.getApplicationContext(), notificationList.get(i), 1).show();
        }
        if (!(parcel instanceof Notification)) {
            return;
        }
        final Notification notification = (Notification) parcel;
        doMoreStuff();

    }
}

With the notification object I have access to a RemoteViews (notification.contentView) and to a PendingIntent (notification.contentIntent).
To get the layoutId, I can call contentView.getLayoutId()

Answer 1

Taken from Extract notification text from parcelable, contentView or contentIntent :

Notification notification = (Notification) event.getParcelableData();
RemoteViews views = notification.contentView;
Class secretClass = views.getClass();

try {
    Map<Integer, String> text = new HashMap<Integer, String>();

    Field outerFields[] = secretClass.getDeclaredFields();
    for (int i = 0; i < outerFields.length; i++) {
        if (!outerFields[i].getName().equals("mActions")) continue;

        outerFields[i].setAccessible(true);

        ArrayList<Object> actions = (ArrayList<Object>) outerFields[i]
        .get(views);
        for (Object action : actions) {
            Field innerFields[] = action.getClass().getDeclaredFields();

            Object value = null;
            Integer type = null;
            Integer viewId = null;
            for (Field field : innerFields) {
                field.setAccessible(true);
                if (field.getName().equals("value")) {
                    value = field.get(action);
                } else if (field.getName().equals("type")) {
                    type = field.getInt(action);
                } else if (field.getName().equals("viewId")) {
                    viewId = field.getInt(action);
                }
            }

            if (type == 9 || type == 10) {
                text.put(viewId, value.toString());
            }
        }

        System.out.println("title is: " + text.get(16908310));
        System.out.println("info is: " + text.get(16909082));
        System.out.println("text is: " + text.get(16908358));
    }
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}