Android Question TTS during notifications. Is it possible?

[Straker]

Is it possible to use TTS inside a service in order to add some vocal message to a notification?
I've done some test but I can hear the message only when the main activity is show. When only the service is running I get only the notification without spoken message.

Probably I should start an 'invisible' activity with CallSubDelayed, use TTS and then terminate it. But I'm wondering if it is possible to do everything from then service...

 

[Erel]

You can use TTS from a service. However when the user presses on a standard notification an activity must be started.

You can probably use a custom notification instead to interact with a service.

 

[Straker]

Thank you, Erel. Always very kind.

I'd like to explain the problem a little better.
I have a service with a socket that every 5 minutes or so connects to a server and collects some data. If everything is fine, the app will do nothing and reschedules itself in 5 minutes.
But if in the collected data there is some sort of alarm, it will emit a notification.
I'd like to enforce the notification with more sound and a voice describing the alarm.

Playing with services and notifications I noticed that TTS works only when the activity is running and not when it's called from the service (I've got TTS in a .bas module).

It's not a problem for my app, it was just curiosity.
I'll do some test with Barx's custom notification library.

Thanx again!

 

[barx]

Thank you, Erel. Always very kind.

I'd like to explain the problem a little better.
I have a service with a socket that every 5 minutes or so connects to a server and collects some data. If everything is fine, the app will do nothing and reschedules itself in 5 minutes.
But if in the collected data there is some sort of alarm, it will emit a notification.
I'd like to enforce the notification with more sound and a voice describing the alarm.

Playing with services and notifications I noticed that TTS works only when the activity is running and not when it's called from the service (I've got TTS in a .bas module).

It's not a problem for my app, it was just curiosity.
I'll do some test with Barx's custom notification library.

Thanx again!

Custom Notification has been superseded by Notification Builder. This one is a lot more powerful.