MediaMetadataCompat title item, how avoid clickable or browsing - Android Auto

[billyjoker]

Hi I am facing an issue using MediaMetadataCompat for Android Auto extension apps. I am trying to create a head title before the items, but that title has the click feautre active to browse or play and I do not the way to disable it, so I do not want it as clickable, only just as a header

            val headerMediaItem = MediaMetadataCompat.Builder().apply {
                putString(MediaMetadataCompat.METADATA_KEY_MEDIA_ID, "HEADER_ID")
                putString(MediaMetadataCompat.METADATA_KEY_TITLE, "Header items title")
                flag = MediaBrowserCompat.MediaItem.FLAG_PLAYABLE // FLAG_BROWSABLE both are clickables
            }.build()

I guess it must to be a way to create "dumb" items, not playable, not browsable, but I did not figured out.

Thanks in advance

[rohitjoins]

To clarify, when setting the flags for the MediaBrowserCompat.MediaItem, the flag is indeed an integer, and by passing 0, you're explicitly stating that there should be no actions (neither FLAG_PLAYABLE nor FLAG_BROWSABLE):

val headerMediaItem = MediaMetadataCompat.Builder().apply {
    putString(MediaMetadataCompat.METADATA_KEY_MEDIA_ID, "HEADER_ID")
    putString(MediaMetadataCompat.METADATA_KEY_TITLE, "Header items title")
    flag = 0 // no flags, making it non-clickable
}.build()

[billyjoker]

falg = 0 has no effect, it is clickable anyway

It seems that migrating to media3 there is an attribute to make it, but migrating now for me it is not a choice

[rohitjoins]

Apologies, my mistake. I'll hand this over to @marcbaechinger, who is an expert in this area.

[billyjoker]

Hi @marcbaechinger any ideas on this one?

[billyjoker]

@marcbaechinger any thoughts on this one ?

[billyjoker]

Hi I finally solved it adding a extra with a flag from MediaConstants called DESCRIPTION_EXTRAS_KEY_CONTENT_STYLE_GROUP_TITLE. So adding it to a group of elements with a title, it is placed as a header with the proper stylement.