Hello, I want to develop an app that it can listen to my voice at any time at any screen. For example, I can say "Hi Buddy", then it can be activated and listen to my words. it is just like "Ok Google".
I'm using a background service to listen on the microphone, onece a keyworkd "Hi Buddy" is detectd, then it will be launched. The current problem is that, there is a race condition of the microphone with Google Now (and other apps like Recorder app). To avoid affecting other apps, I want to release the microphone when Google Now's micophone button on launcher panel is clicked, or it is on the voice input page of Google Now. But I don't know when other apps are attempt to use the microphone, and can't detect wheather Google Now is showing the voice input page or not. So I don't know when to release the microphone. So when I app is running, other apps are not able to use the microphone. I create the AudioRecord with MediaRecorder.AudioSource.VOICE_RECOGNITION. There is another source MediaRecorder.AudioSource.HOTWORD, but it is a hidden audio source and require the permission android.permission.CAPTURE_AUDIO_HOTWORD, I can't get the permission as a non-system app. My questions are: 1. How to detect if other apps trying to use the microphone or not. (or how the get the android.permission.CAPTURE_AUDIO_HOTWORD permission) 2. How to know if Google Now is showing its voice input page or not? 3. Any other workaround? Anyone can help? Sincerely Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/c25598c6-ac73-4ba7-9973-ec91821c58a5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.