I'm beginning to grok the fullness... :) You could use the ALARM stream, though the user might have silenced alarms and then nothing will be heard.
We are adding the ability to send events to the music player to tell it to play, pause, skip, etc. to support AVRCP. This will come in a release in Q1. That seems like the ideal way to hook your app in, and hopefully 3rd party music player apps will pick up on this as well. On Dec 11, 7:13 am, Greg <gregory.r.fie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the info Dave (especially getting call for the raw file > descriptor!). > > Allow me to help you grok the fullness of this (wonder how many > people have actually read that book these days) :) My app actually > runs in foreground and background (via service) for doing some > exercise tracking. As someone is out moving about they may start my > app, set things up, and start tracking then leave the app. The > service is in background paying attention to what its supposed to > (GPS, calculations, etc.) and at certain intervals needs to 'read out' > some statistics. > > I don't want to build my own mp3 player in the app because it's a) not > what I want to focus on and b) not going to be as good as everything > else that is already out there. I would much prefer to just play > nicely with existing mp3 apps. The only requirement I would have is > this one ability to either play my notification over the audio stream > louder than the music or (preferably) suspend/pause the music stream > to play my notification, then resume the other streams. > > The phone could be in one of several states: > > 1. MP3 player playing, my app in foreground, my app service running. > 2. MP3 player in foreground, my app gone, my app service running. > 3. Some other app in foreground (on a call maybe), my app gone, my app > service running. > > Again what I'm looking for here is the best way for my notifications > to interrupt any current audio stream (except a phone call) that is > going on as long as my service is active. (If my service is active in > background, then the user wants to hear these notifications) > > Do the audio stream types interact/override one another? If I put my > player in the ALARM type will that stop/play louder than the MUSIC > type? > > Thanks! > > Greg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
