Execute Android's mediaplayer from an app

NJDude

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• Sep 7, 2012

• #2

Is this what you're looking for?

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Dim i As Intent

i.Initialize ("", "")
i.SetComponent("com.google.android.music/com.android.music.activitymanagement.TopLevelActivity")

StartActivity(i)

 

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sorex

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• Sep 7, 2012

• #3

dunno, never worked with such code.

let me try this...

 

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NJDude

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• Sep 7, 2012

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If that doesn't work, then try this:

B4X:

Dim i As Intent

i.Initialize("android.intent.action.MUSIC_PLAYER", "")
StartActivity(i)

 

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sorex

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• Sep 8, 2012

• #5

that didn't work either

it spits out this error...

ActivityNotFoundException:No activity found to handle Intent {act=android.intent.action.MUSIC_PLAYER flg=0x20000 }

 

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NJDude

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• Sep 8, 2012

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I really don't know why is not working for you, I have tried that code on all my devices which ranges from Froyo to Jelly Bean and it works.

 

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sorex

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• Sep 8, 2012

• #7

my device is such small Samsung Galaxy Apollo 5800, in some countries it's called Galaxy mini 5800 or something.

I added a button, and put those lines in it's click event, do I need to add something in that manifest to make it working?

Can you attach your example?

 

Last edited: Sep 8, 2012

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Erel

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• Sep 9, 2012

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You should use PhoneIntents.PlayAudio. It is better than explicitly specifying the target activity.

 

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sorex

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• Sep 9, 2012

• #9

you mean like this?

B4X:

Dim i As Intent
i.Initialize("PhoneIntents.PlayAudio", "")
StartActivity(i)

fails aswell

 

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NJDude

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• Sep 9, 2012

• #10

Like this:

B4X:

Dim p As PhoneIntents

StartActivity(p.PlayAudio(File.DirDefaultExternal, "Tune.mp3"))

You need to reference the Phone library.

 

Last edited: Sep 9, 2012

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sorex

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• Sep 9, 2012

• #11

ok, but then I need to code my file selector, retrieve directory to advance tracks etc.

I wanted to avoid that by using that default player.

 

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sorex

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• Sep 10, 2012

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Erel:

Do you have any idea how to get this working?

We tried to figure out how Endomondo does it with some intent tracker,
but that didn't bring up anything new.

 

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Erel

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• Sep 11, 2012

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You can use ContentChooser to let the user choose an audio file.

 

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sorex

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• Sep 11, 2012

• #14

you mean there is no general option to use the built-in player so I have to write it all myself (including that ContentChooser as file selector)?

 

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Informatix

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• Sep 11, 2012

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sorex said:

you mean there is no general option to use the built-in player so I have to write it all myself (including that ContentChooser as file selector)?

Click to expand...

Not all. There are the MediaBrowser library and the FileExplorer class.

 

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