Set lock screen background in Android (like Spotify do)

Question

I know that this topic has been already discussed here, here and here, and the answer seems to be that it is not possible.

But I recently installed Spotify in my Ne

Answer 1

I know this is late but perfect answer is still required. So to set lock screen background in Android (like Spotify do) we have to perform following steps.

1. set media session active mSession.setActive(true). if session is not active so it is not gona show.

2. set playback state

playBackStateBuilder = new PlaybackStateCompat.Builder()
            .setActions(PlaybackStateCompat.ACTION_PLAY | PlaybackStateCompat.ACTION_SKIP_TO_NEXT
                    | PlaybackStateCompat.ACTION_PAUSE | PlaybackStateCompat.ACTION_SKIP_TO_PREVIOUS
                    | PlaybackStateCompat.ACTION_STOP | PlaybackStateCompat.ACTION_PLAY_PAUSE);`

`mSession.setPlaybackState(playBackStateBuilder.setState(PlaybakStateCompate.STATE_PLAYING, 0, 0).build());

Note: lock screen image is showed when first playback state is set to playing then it can be switch to other states

3. set meta data

mSession.setMetadata(new MediaMetadataCompat.Builder()
                .putString(MediaMetadataCompat.METADATA_KEY_TITLE, title)
                .putString(MediaMetadataCompat.METADATA_KEY_ARTIST, artist)
                .putBitmap(MediaMetadataCompat.METADATA_KEY_ALBUM_ART, bitmap)
                .build());

here KEY_ALBUM_ART is required because this is the image which is shown on lock screen.

By setting above three things it had showed on my galaxy device but not on pixels devices so for that follow last point.

4. show notification with media style

NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(mContext, CHANNEL_ID);
    builder.setStyle(
            new androidx.media.app.NotificationCompat.MediaStyle()
    );
    
    mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
    mNotificationManager.notify(121, builder.build());