Execute Android's mediaplayer from an app

[sorex]

Hello,

Is there a way to execute Android's default mediaplayer to select a music track and get back to my app by pressing back the back button? (Endomondo does this by the way)

I searched the forum and could find the mediaplayer example but that's for a single track play, invoking the default player would provide me track advance/pause/restart/file selector etc without the need to code all that in my app.

I know I can quit my app via the home button and go to applications > mediaplayer but a simple button that shortcut's this would be neat.

 

[NJDude]

Is this what you're looking for?

Dim i As Intent

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

StartActivity(i)

 

[sorex]

dunno, never worked with such code.

let me try this...

 

[NJDude]

If that doesn't work, then try this:

Dim i As Intent

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

 

[sorex]

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 }

 

[NJDude]

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.

 

[sorex]

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?

 

[Erel]

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

 

[sorex]

you mean like this?

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

fails aswell

 

[NJDude]

Like this:

Dim p As PhoneIntents

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

You need to reference the Phone library.

 

[sorex]

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.

 

[sorex]

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.

 

[Erel]

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

 

[sorex]

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)?

 

[Informatix]

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)?

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