Handling audio focus while writing media player apps for android
In this post, I am not going to tell you how to write media player app for Android. You will find several blog posts on that. In this post, I am going to write how you can handle the audio focus. Before we start, I am going to list a few links on creating a media player for android for you. How to create a media player app in android http://www.androidhive.info/2012/03/android-building-audio-player-tutorial/ http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-music-player-on-android-song-playback--mobile-22778 http://www.tutorialspoint.com/android/android_mediaplayer.htm These are just a few examples. OK, let's get back to the original topic. If you have multiple apps that play audio then you are going to hear all of them playing at the same time. In this tutorial we are going to stop any other audio from playing while our app plays the audio. Once the audio is played, we will let other apps continue playing their audio. The code below is an example implementation of