How to display clear background image on Android Wear notification?

Question

As far as I can work out, there are two ways to set the background image for a notification in Android Wear. For the record, both start with:

   Bitmap bitma         


        

Answer 1

Please use setBackground(Bitmap) method from WearableExtender instead of setLargeIcon(Bitmap). It will set the background bitmap that won't be blurred.

Notification.Builder wearableBuilder = new Notification.Builder(context)
    ...
    .extend(new WearableExtender().setBackground(bitmap));