Android Notification to play sound only

Question

I have a countdown timer in my activity and when it reaches zero I send a notification to the status bar which also plays a custom wav file to alert the user. I only want t

Answer 1

In 'Adding a sound' section in http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html there is this note :

Note: If the defaults field includes DEFAULT_SOUND, then the default sound overrides any sound defined by the sound field.

So, if you want to customize only sound, you may use -

notification.sound = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.notifysnd);
notification.defaults = Notification.DEFAULT_LIGHTS | Notification.DEFAULT_VIBRATE;

Answer 2

NotificationCompat.Builder builder= new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);

three ways to setSound

builder.setDefaults(Notification.DEFAULT_SOUND);
builder.setSound(RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION));
builder.setSound(Settings.System.DEFAULT_NOTIFICATION_URI);

Answer 3

According to my experiment, you can indeed send a notification without it appear in the notification area but still have the sound played.

All you need to do is to construct a notification builder and set sound to it, but skip the pending intent, icon, content title and content text.

NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this);
builder.setSound(your_sound_uri);
notificationManager.notify(1234, builder.build());

Answer 4

Uri soundUri = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);

Notification mNotification = new Notification.Builder(this)

            .setContentTitle("New Post!")
            .setContentText("Here's an awesome update for you!")
            .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_lancher)
            .setContentIntent(pIntent)
            .setSound(soundUri)
            .build();