title: Custom notification: java.lang.RuntimeException: bad array lengths
body: <p>I'm trying to use custom notifications in my Android application using Google's sample from <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html" rel="noreferrer">here</a> (section <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications.html#CustomExpandedView" rel="noreferrer">Creating a Custom Notification Layout</a>).
  Since I'm using this exact code I got a <code>RuntimeException</code> every few times a notification is fired.</p>
  
  <p>My stack trace: </p>
  
  <pre><code>FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  java.lang.RuntimeException: bad array lengths
      at android.os.Parcel.readIntArray(Parcel.java:677)
      at android.app.INotificationManager$Stub$Proxy.enqueueNotificationWithTag(INotificationManager.java:369)
      at android.app.NotificationManager.notify(NotificationManager.java:110)
      at android.app.NotificationManager.notify(NotificationManager.java:90)
      at com.****.service.UpdateFeedService.notifyUpdateProgress(UpdateFeedService.java:266)
      at com.****.service.task.PodcastUpdaterTask.onProgressUpdate(PodcastUpdaterTask.java:63)
      at com.****.service.task.PodcastUpdaterTask.onProgressUpdate(PodcastUpdaterTask.java:1)
      at android.os.AsyncTask$InternalHandler.handleMessage(AsyncTask.java:432)
      at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
      at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:144)
      at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4937)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
      at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
      at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
      at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>private final Intent updateInProgressIntent = new Intent(this.context, PodcastListActivity.class);
  private RemoteViews updateInProgressContentView = null;
  private PendingIntent updateInProgressPendingIntent = null;
  private Notification updateInProgressNotification = null;
  ...
      @Override 
      public void onCreate() { 
          super.onCreate();    
  ...
          this.updateInProgressPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, UPDATE_INPROGRESS_NOTIFICATION_ID, 
          this.updateInProgressIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);     
          this.updateInProgressContentView = new RemoteViews(getPackageName(), R.layout.custom_notification);
  ...
      }
  
      public void notifyUpdateProgress(final int index, final int size, final Podcast podcast) {
  
          this.updateInProgressContentView.setImageViewBitmap(
                  R.id.image, ActivityHelper.getBitmap(context, podcast.getThumbnailAsset()));
          this.updateInProgressContentView.setTextViewText(R.id.title, "some msg");
          this.updateInProgressContentView.setTextViewText(R.id.text, podcast.getName());
          this.updateInProgressNotification.contentView = this.updateInProgressContentView;       
          this.updateInProgressNotification.contentIntent = this.updateInProgressPendingIntent;               
          this.notificationManager.notify(UPDATE_INPROGRESS_NOTIFICATION_ID, this.updateInProgressNotification);
  
          ...
          }       
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I replace the custom notification with a standard one (with <code>setLatestEventInfo()</code>) I have no problems.</p>