How to get the default notification background color for custom notification in Lollipop?

Question

I\'m having an issue with the color of my custom notification background in Lollipop. It\'s black where it should be white. The textColor is OK:

I\'m using

Answer 1

To solve this, you have 2 options:

1) Target SDK 21, and custom notification will automatically use a white background

2) Copy your existing layout to layout-v21 folder and add android:background="#FFFFFFFF" to its root, like this:

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Works great for me.