Hi,
it's pretty simple: add a broadcast listener to MEDIA_BUTTON:
<intent-filter android:priority="<some number>">
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MEDIA_BUTTON" />
</intent-filter>
You need to give it a "priority", which decides whether it's handled
before or after other apps. In other words, it's pure coincidence who
picked the highest number...
If you handled the button press, you should abort the broadcast with
abortBroadcast(). Trouble with this handling is, the priorities and
abortBroadcast() work fine as long as each app only responds while
e.g. something is played. But several users also expect a "default
player" to be launched (or start playing) upon button press, like the
default player, so it might happen some app with a higher priority
number won't let the intent come through to your app... (I already
filed an issue to improve that:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7772
- no response so far...)
In the onReceive, you can get the button event with
KeyEvent key = (KeyEvent)
intent.getParcelableExtra(Intent.EXTRA_KEY_EVENT);
key.getKeyAction() tells you whether the button was released or
pressed, key.getKeyCode() tells which button. The values are
documented and pretty self explaining, like KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN or
KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE.
Regarding press and release, keep in mind several headsets do own
processing which prevents this (like e.g. closing the connection or
sending "stop" on long press on play/pause) or simply send both at
once when the key is pressed or released. Also, some BT drivers are a
bit unreliable in that regard...
If you want to handle single button cable headsets as well, also
regard the key code KEYCODE_HEADSETHOOK.
btw: HTC Hero doesn't implement this standard, it needs a workaround
app.
HTH,
Mirko
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