Fix ghost notifications on Android 10#71
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Fixes TeamNewPipe#12400, see there for explanation. Citing from there: So apparently the problem is onGetRoot always returning a BrowserRoot instance. Making it return null solved the issue (but again, breaks Android Auto compatibility). It turns out (see https://stackoverflow.com/q/63818988/) that onGetRoot is also used for media resumption https://developer.android.com/media/implement/surfaces/mobile#mediabrowserservice_implementation, which causes a new notification to pop up (in this case a useless notification because our onGetRoot does not return something that can be used for resumption). So what needs to be done is to check if rootHints?.getBoolean(EXTRA_RECENT) == true and if that's the case not return anything (as EXTRA_RECENT is used by the system for resumption). The PackageValidator file is taken from https://github.com/android/uamp/blob/329a21b63c247e9bd35f6858d4fc0e448fa38603/common/src/main/java/com/example/android/uamp/media/PackageValidator.kt .
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Fix ghost notifications on Android 10
So apparently the problem is onGetRoot always returning a BrowserRoot instance. Making it return null solved the issue (but again, breaks Android Auto compatibility). It turns out (see https://stackoverflow.com/q/63818988/) that onGetRoot is also used for media resumption https://developer.android.com/media/implement/surfaces/mobile#mediabrowserservice_implementation, which causes a new notification to pop up (in this case a useless notification because our onGetRoot does not return something that can be used for resumption). So what needs to be done is to check if rootHints?.getBoolean(EXTRA_RECENT) == true and if that's the case not return anything (as EXTRA_RECENT is used by the system for resumption).
The PackageValidator file is taken from https://github.com/android/uamp/blob/329a21b63c247e9bd35f6858d4fc0e448fa38603/common/src/main/java/com/example/android/uamp/media/PackageValidator.kt .
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