I'm looking for a solution to observe what the app is currently playing. At minimum I would need to know what URI is being used to play Media and what is current playback position.
We are giving developers API with media content (MP3/HLS files) and to give them the best experience we are asking them to send various events to our API. Based on those events we can prepare better content for their users. We would like to ease the process of tracking events by implementing library that will be responsible for tracking those events. To do it we need to observe/query what their app is currently playing and what is a playback position. That's why I'm looking for a solution that will let me do this without caring too much what kind of player app is using (MediaPlayer, ExoPlayer or any other solution).
Is there any tool that will let me check those informations?
I want to implement an application that listens for events from the official Youtube Application, I've been digging into a lot of question here in Stackoverflow but I couldn't find a good answer.
I want to listen when a video start and pause/stop, I've seen in the logcat some relevant information. The only thing that is missing is the video ID. But maybe there is another better way to get this information.
And I know It is possible because that's exactly what Musixmatch does:
Thank you
Please refer to Android MediaController (https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/media2/session/MediaController) which -
Allows an app to interact with an active MediaSession or a MediaSessionService which would provide MediaSession. Media buttons and other commands can be sent to the session.
In reference to my question at:
Android Lollipop prepareAsync() takes a long time to return
I would like to go to a lower level. Does anyone know of a way to set up and play a live stream WITHOUT using a MediaPlayer object? Nothing fancy, just connect and play. No retrieval of song info or anything else.
Please see my other question (still unanswered) for details.
i'm very very new to android/java and am trying to create a basic video player on android.
i have researched all throughout stackoverflow, google, youtube, etc but i really can't seem to find a way to do this..
my goal is to have a listview that shows all the compatible videos on the android device. then, after tapping on one of the items in the listview, the video would play.
i did find some very helpful resources, such as http://www.android-trainer.com/playing-with-videos-from-content-providers-part-3-.html , but this code uses the deprecated method managedquery()
i was then lead to this website: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-sdk_loading-data_cursorloader/comment-page-1/#comment-15832 to find a way around the managedquery() method, but judging from the comments, this tutorial is ridden with bugs... i tried to debug the tutorial but i was hoping someone could give me a clear explanation of what to do...
should i focus on the first link and figure out how to go around the deprecated managedquery() method? if so, how do i go about avoiding the managedquery() method?
or is there another, perhaps simpler, way of creating a video player that can play all the videos in the device?
thank you
Where do you want the list to come from? Are you ok with using the default video player?
Where are the videos stored?
ManagedQuery (and cursorloader) is for traversing through a database. You don't need that.
I am trying to develop an app/widget for which I need display the currently playing information (metadata) of an audio track.
This would be trivial if I was also writing the MediaPlayer myself, as I could simply access the MediaStore and bring up the info, however, I do not wish to compete with the plethora of existing apps on this front. I want to be able to pull this inforrmation from the builtin audio player or other app such as SongBird or PowerAMP.
I should be able to do this with PowerAMP using their [API][1], but have, but I really want a solution that works for the stock android player and others too.
I was hoping to be able to grab the information from the AudioManager, but that seems only to allow me to query the current state (Music is playing et) and I can set my intent to play music, etc... But no access to metadata from someone elses app.
So my thought is this cannot be done easily. My thoughts are that I could maybe access this info from the info bar at the top as the now playing info is printed up there. It might be an ugly hack though...
For a moment I got excited about the RemoteControlClient.MetadataEditor from 4.0, but then I figured out that it was for writing that information to a stream that can be sent to the physical remote, rather than allowing you to create a software remote. Damn!
Does anyone have any ideas?
[1]: http://forum.powerampapp.com/index.php?/topic/1034-updated-for-20-poweramp-api-lib-and-sample-applications/ Power AMP
I've written a guide for implementing this.
Basically, you need to have access to hidden classes of android.jar library. Then you have to extend IRemoteControlDisplay$Stub class, and implement it's methods.
After that you register your RemoteControlDisplay with hidden method - AudioManager#registerRemoteControlDisplay.
There is just way too much to explain in one answer, so read my guide on XDA-Developers.
Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44513199
Also, I'm currently working on a library which will simplify the process of implementing you remote media controls.
I should be able to do this with PowerAMP using their [API][1], but have, but I really want a solution that works for the stock android player and others too.
There is no documented and supported API for the AOSP Music app or the Google Play Music app, AFAIK. They certainly are not in the Android SDK.
I am not aware of an Android ecosystem standard for media players exposing this information, let alone a roster of apps that support such a standard. You are welcome to work with the developers of such apps and encourage them to create and adopt a standard.
My thoughts are that I could maybe access this info from the info bar at the top as the now playing info is printed up there.
It is not possible to spy on other applications' Notifications, for obvious privacy and security reasons.
For a moment I got excited about the RemoteControlClient.MetadataEditor from 4.0, but then I figured out that it was for writing that information to a stream that can be sent to the physical remote, rather than allowing you to create a software remote. Damn!
Surely there's a way to access the Remote Control Client metadata on Android 4.0, because the lock screen is able to access it when media is playing.
I'm not a developer at all, but I've tried to do a bit of poking around in the AOKP sources and this is my limited understanding of how it works. At least in AOKP (and presumably AOSP as well, then), it appears that the lockscreen uses core/java/com/android/internal/widget/TransportControlView.java to draw the music control widget on the lockscreen, which in turn uses media/java/android/media/IRemoteControlDisplay.aidl for data retrieval. At the very least, it may be useful to poke around in TransportControlView.java to see if you can figure out how the lockscreen widget works.