A while ago I posted a topic in the forum at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/a9aab3fff5643eff/4217295b230cc16b?hl=en#4217295b230cc16b titled "Google Maps Broadcast Event for audible navigation instructions start and stop?"
For some reason I am not longer able to reply on that topic, so I will start a new post with my further input. I noticed that in the newer Android versions the system will now automatically mute audio streams while some types of audio notifications are playing. This is a nice solution for many types of audio. For music players this works well. My audio application is an audiobook player. The reason that I had posted the original topic about the ability to get a notification when other audio needs to play, is because for an audiobook, muting the audio isn't a very good solution. People miss part of the dialog of the audiobook while it is muted. I now have customers writing to me and complaining that it skips part of their audiobook when other notifications play. It appears to be skipping to the listener because the audiobook continues to play but is muted while the other audio notification plays. Is there a way for my application to get a notification when its audio stream gets muted and unmuted? This notification would allow the application to pause the playback in the audiobook where another audio notification started to play and the audiobook sound was muted. Then later getting an unmuted notification when the interrupting audio finishes playing would allow the audiobook player to resume playing at the correct position in the book. This functionality would be useful for any non-music audio or video application to allow it to pause the pod cast, movie, audiobook, or whatever is playing until the audio interruption has finished. The new ability to mute the audio from the lock screen also only really works well for music type applications. For other non-music applications such as my audiobook player, I would like to know that the sound has stopped so I can stop at the current location in the audiobook. I may want to back up the audiobook playback position a few seconds when the stream is "unmuted", so having the system automatically pause my media player without giving me a notification would not be as good of a solution as providing a notification that my stream is being muted and unmuted. Please let me know if there is a way to be notified when my audio stream is muted or unmuted. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
