I read a lot of threads about lock screen widget and I can't understand whether its possible to build lock screen widget for Android version less than 4.2?
I have a music app and I want a widget in lock screen that can play, pause, play next and last song, similar to iPhone lock screen when iPod playing and same as music player for Android.
If it's not possible for Android 2.1 - 4.1 then why can the native music player in android 2.3.3 on Samsung Galaxy S2 do it?
It seems like duplicate question. Please check my answer here for the lockScreen control you required.
Answer: Media Control on Lock Screen like Google Play Music in android?
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I have a working app with notification media controls. I am properly using Notification.MediaStyle(). Everything works well on Google Pixel 4a. However Samsung devices are showing their own system/default controls on lock screen. Buttons are wrong, metadata is missing and they are not usable.
So the question is how do I make them work or how do I disable them? I was not able to find any related documentation.
I created an android app that has a streaming audio. I need to create an audio player on the lock screen to continue running in the background. What is the best option for this? Should I create a widget?
For android 4.2 and above you can use the official lock screen widget which is documented over here - App Widget
And there is already a thread present which contains some discussion if the version is below 4.2 :
Android Lock Screen Widget
I want to make an in-app widget, that can pause/play and switch music forward/backward for a lockscreen app for Android. I've tried some different ways, such as working with mediaplayer or Intent, but this didn't help me. I need my app to control music from all the sources: web browser, native music app, social networking apps with music playback support and so on. Something close to that is made in Sony Xperias as a widget. The difference is, that mine won't be a widget, I want it to use inside an application, that replaces the native lockscreen.
Hope that my question is clear.
I've found the answer for Android 4+ versions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45288378
I want my music widget to be shown on the screen in a similar way that RemoteControlClient works. I don't want the users to be needed to have the widget added to the lock screen beforehand. The samsung music app on thier 4.2 devices have this behaviour.
AFAIK, this isn't possible in the public SDK. Samsung's apps may be able to do it on their device because they are developed by Samsung for their own devices and have greater access as preinstalled system apps.
No API that I am aware of does this as of now.
I am implementing a Music player Application. for that Application i want to implement a playback widget that stays on their lock screens and allows them to interact with the app.
i have found that it is possible in Android 4.2 Api. but some of the music player application can provide this feature in above Android 3.0
So that i have searched a lots of thing to implementing an screen lock widget that support from Android 3.0, but i can't found anything about it.
Any one have a solution or step, how to making lock screen widget that support from Android 3.0. ?
waiting for you reply.
Thanks in Advance.
You can make it into an activity instead of a widget and use certain flags such as FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED and FLAG_DISMISS_KEYGUARD to achieve this I think. This thread will help you:
Android Lock Screen Widget