In the meantime the abomination belows works. I know: "...private api...might break....evil...don't do this...." What's really missing is a public API to enumerate decoders and their capabilities (in particular is decoding supported over HTTP).
public Boolean isWMASupported() { try { Class decoderCapabilitiesClass = Class.forName("android.media.DecoderCapabilities"); Class audioDecoderClass = Class.forName("android.media.DecoderCapabilities$AudioDecoder"); Object constants[] = audioDecoderClass.getEnumConstants(); if(constants == null || constants.length == 0) return null; Object AUDIO_DECODER_WMA = constants[0]; Method getAudioDecodersMethod = decoderCapabilitiesClass.getMethod("getAudioDecoders"); List decoders = (List)getAudioDecodersMethod.invoke(null); for(Object decoder : decoders) { if(decoder.equals(AUDIO_DECODER_WMA)) return true; } return false; } catch (Exception e) { return null; } } On Aug 24, 12:51 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:39 AM, b0b <pujos.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If only google in its immense wisdom had provided > > MediaPlayer.isMimeTypeSupported()... > > Yes, it's a stunning omission. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en