How to add vertical line to RemoteView for custom Android Notifications?

android, android-layout, android-notifications, remoteview, view

Solution

You can't inflate just any view in a `RemoteView`. Change your `View` to an empty `TextView` or `ImageView`.

A RemoteViews object (and, consequently, an App Widget) can support the following layout classes:

FrameLayout
LinearLayout
RelativeLayout

And the following widget classes:

AnalogClock
Button
Chronometer
ImageButton
ImageView
ProgressBar
TextView
ViewFlipper
ListView
GridView
StackView
AdapterViewFlipper

Descendants of these classes are not supported.

Reference: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/appwidgets/index.html#CreatingLayout

Problem

I'm struggling to add a vertical line to a custom Android Notification. I've tried adding a view like this to my Relative Layout: ``` <View android:id="@+id/line_vertical" android:layout_width="1dip" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_centerVertical="true" android:layout_toRightOf="@id/image_logo" android:background="#0000FF" /> ``` But when I fire the notification, I get the following Exception: android.app.RemoteServiceException: Bad notification posted from package XXX: Couldn't expand RemoteViews for: StatusBarNotification(package=XXX) Anybody have any ideas?

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