Notification Won't Appear On Android TV

I am playing with notifications on Android TV. I have not been able to get a notification to appear on the screen though. I am using the Nexus player which is on Android 6.0. When

Solution 1:

A TV notification is going to be different in some ways from a phone notification and may have specific additional parameters. Try adding a few more attributes. Here's a snippet of a TV notification I have implemented in one of my apps which works.

Notification notification = new NotificationCompat.BigPictureStyle(
            new NotificationCompat.Builder(mContext)
                    .setContentTitle(video.getString("title"))
                    .setContentText(mDescription)
                    .setPriority(mPriority)
                    .setLocalOnly(true)
                    .setOngoing(true)
                    .setColor(mContext.getResources().getColor(android.R.color.holo_green_dark))
                    .setCategory(Notification.CATEGORY_RECOMMENDATION)
                    .setLargeIcon(thumbnail)
                    .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_note)
                    .setContentIntent(launchApp(mContext))
                    .setExtras(null))
            .build();


    return notification;

Solution 2:

Since Android TV works a bit more restricted as Android smartphones you need to instantiate and set the TvExtender

But since it is flagged with @SystemApi annotation, it's not that easy..