widget and mediabrowser

[stefanoa]

i've a music player app using MediaBrowser... YouMediaPlayer
i need to create a widget with which to control some functions such as play / pause / stop / etc.
if i play a song from my app and then minimize the app, the song continue playing..
how can i STOP or pause the song from widget?the problem is that they are 2 separate apps (widget and app) and cannot interact
some ideas?

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Use an intent to send the player app an intent which pauses/plays/skips the media.
You will need to build in intent filters to your player to receive the intent, and generate intents in the widget.

 

[stefanoa]

can you post a little example?

thnks

 

[thedesolatesoul]

Adapting warwounds example here: http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...-any-way-execute-command-inside-variable.html

When clicking on the widget to send an intent:

Dim Intent1 As Intent
Intent1.Initialize(Intent1.ACTION_MAIN, "")
Intent1.SetComponent("your.application.package.name.here/.youractivity")
Intent1.PutExtra("Var1", Var1)
Intent1.PutExtra("Var2", Var2)
StartActivity(Intent1)

so in Var1 you can put State = Playing, Paused etc

OR​

If setcomponent does not work then you can try making an action like:

AddActivityText(youractivity,
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="com.packagename.myaction" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>)

To receive the intent in your main application:

Sub Activity_Resume

    Dim Intent1 As Intent
    Intent1=Activity.GetStartingIntent
    If Intent1.HasExtra("Var1") AND Intent1.HasExtra("Var2") Then
        Dim Var1 As String=intent1.GetExtra("Var1")
        Dim Var2 As String=intent1.GetExtra("Var2")
    Else
        '    handle the activity being started with an Intent that doesn't contain the required values
    End If
    
End Sub

 

[stefanoa]

thanks!!