I have to attach voice recorded file as attachment to my android application. I have created a separate activity for voice recording without using inbuilt voice recorder application and it's working fine.
I thought of using the inbuilt application 'Voice Recorder' instead of using the activity which I have created.
I know that using Intent we should start the new activity. But I'm not able to find out how to start inbuilt voice recorder application and how it should be opened from my application?
Kindly let me know if anyone has experience in handling this scenario.
Thanks in advance!
You can try this
public static final int ACTIVITY_RECORD_SOUND = 0;
Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.Audio.Media.RECORD_SOUND_ACTION);
startActivityForResult(intent, ACTIVITY_RECORD_SOUND);
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I am using MediaStore.Audio.Media.RECORD_SOUND_ACTION to open sound recorder application, I am not able to open application as no default application present, then i install two voice recorder application even though not able to see these application in my chooser intent. I am using following code-
Intent soundRecorderIntent = new Intent(); // create intent
soundRecorderIntent.setAction(MediaStore.Audio.Media.RECORD_SOUND_ACTION); // set action
startActivityForResult(soundRecorderIntent, ACTIVITY_RECORD_SOUND); // start activity
It works well in marshmallow
The code is correct and you've probably found an app that supports the intent by now. But to prevent that others waste their time like I did, here's a quick note:
Most of the currently top rated voice recording apps in the Play Store do not provide the necessary intent filter.
That seemed so unrealistic to me that I doubted my code when it didn't work after having installed the five most popular voice recording apps. But there's a handy manifest viewer app that reveals that their manifests simply do not declare the intent filter. So, as said, the code is correct.
To save you the time from searching for a suitable app, here are two that are invocable:
Audio Recorder from Sony
Samsung Voice Recorder from Samsung
There is no requirement for a voice recorder app to support this Intent action, and apparently your device does not ship with an app that supports this Intent action either. Your code itself seems fine.
If recording is optional to your app, catch the ActivityNotFoundException and tell the user that they do not have a recorder, and perhaps suggest to them that they install one that you test that works, if you can find one.
Otherwise, record the audio yourself, using MediaRecorder.
Is there a way to automatically start Google Now on Music Recognition? I'd need it to create a DashClock extension that start Music Recognizing...
As far as I speak, I can start package com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox successfully but I cannot start voice input... I would not use startActivity for result since I would not need a result, I would really just start Google Now voice recognition feature, is there a way to do it programmatically?
Otherwise, to simply launch Google Now Song Recognition service (without having to tap on "Listen to Music", to be clear), you can create an Intent with the string
"com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.MUSIC_SEARCH";
that would launch directly the proper interface.
I just found a way to achieve my goal:
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setClassName("com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox","com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox.VoiceSearchActivity");
starting this intent will bring up voice search window.
I'm writing an app that uses the camera however I'm currently using the code:
Intent intent = new Intent("android.media.action.IMAGE_CAPTURE");
startActivity(intent);
Which opens the camera but not the stock android camera app. Is there a way to do that? I want to use the stock camera so that I don't have to deal with saving photos/videos, or exception handling myself.
I want to write some application to control android music player :)
For example when i shake phone -> player should change music next one. Is it possible without rooting my phone?
I think it is possible, here is a snippet for a performing playback through Intent.
Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.INTENT_ACTION_MUSIC_PLAYER);
startActivity(intent);
or
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
File file = new File(YOUR_SONG_URI);
intent.setDataAndType(Uri.fromFile(file), "audio/*");
startActivity(intent);
Source: Android launching music player using intent
You have to check if there are more Intents you can use by googleing (loading a playlist, etc.).
To control any 3rd party application it first have to be willing to let you to. It is usually done by exposing public API of any sort, so other app would know how to do that. If music player of your choice offers that, then "yes" is the answer. If it does not, then usually it means "no", and rooting is not necessarily a magical solution either. If there's no API or any other communication channel exposed (even non publicly) then achieving your goal would be tricky.
I have a link to a audio file. I don't want to create a object using my code for a Mediaplayer and play it, but instead I want to call the inbuilt MediaPlayer app of my android mobile. Is this possible at all. Any help is much appreciated.
Try this:
Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(audioFileUri, "audio/*");
startActivity(intent);
Or change the last line to startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "play music")); to display a app chooser to finish the task.
I have used this piece of code and find that it doesn't work for the audio files for /raw folder. I guess this happens because the player can't get access to the resource from developer's package.