Receiving MP3 play actions in a BroadcastReceiver in Android

Question

I am trying to build an Android Service that should get notified when the user starts playing an MP3. I checked LogCat when I start playing a song and saw that the following Intent is logged:

Intent { act=com.android.music.PLAYBACK_VIEWER flg=0x4000000 cmp=com.android.music/.MediaPlaybackActivity }

I couldn't figure out how to write an IntentFilter to let my Service know that this event has occurred and let me know the name of the song that will be played. I searched Android reference but could not find anything on PLAYBACK_VIEWER.

Thanks,

C

Answer 1

I would do neither. First, none of this is part of the SDK and so may change at any point. Second, this will only work for the built-in media player application, not any third-party or OEM-supplied media players, and I expect more people to gravitate to those.

Answer 2

Similarly I am trying to build an Android Service that should be notified when a ringtone starts playing. Now I can get this change in status from the TelephonyManager and check the default ringtone etc. in the RingtoneManager, but I cannot appear to find out exactly which ringtone is playing (after all users can assign separate ringtones to individual contacts)...

So forgive me, but I am just curious if you solved this problem in any way as I suspect the answer relates to what I am trying to do. Many thanks. Clive