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Kamran Maqbool
Kamran Maqbool

Reputation: 23

How to put media buttons on the lockscreen with ExoPlayer

I am using ExoPlayer (https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer) and custom notifications.

I want to access my music player from lock screen and headphone like in google play music and wync.
Please help me.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1999

Answers (2)

DeePanShu
DeePanShu

Reputation: 1326

I am also using Exoplayer with PlayerNotificationManager, And I used MediaSessionConnector and TimelineQueueNavigator to build notifications for the lock screen and background image for the lock screen.

Here, is my question with the Exoplayer team which is resolved for android 11 and above, regarding how to use MediaSessionConnector:

Why PlayerNotificationManager not showing Notification on startForeground in Android 11(R)?

Now, I just added a bitmap (using putParcelable()) for the current session track for MediaDescriptionCompact which will be set to the current MediaSession internally.

Here is the code for that:

val mediaSession = MediaSessionCompat(serviceContext, "DPS_APP")
mediaSession.isActive = true
mediaSessionConnector = MediaSessionConnector(mediaSession).also {
                it.setQueueNavigator(
                    object : TimelineQueueNavigator(mediaSession) {
                        override fun getMediaDescription(
                            player: Player,
                            windowIndex: Int
                        ): MediaDescriptionCompat {
                            val data: MediaMetaData =
                                getEmptyOfNullMedia(player)
                            isBitmapAvailable(getCurrentMediaArt(data))
                            val extras = Bundle().apply {
                                putString(
                                    MediaMetadataCompat.METADATA_KEY_TITLE,
                                    getCurrentTitle(data)
                                )
                                putString(
                                    MediaMetadataCompat.METADATA_KEY_ARTIST,
                                    getMediaTitle(data)
                                )
                                putParcelable(
                                    MediaMetadataCompat.METADATA_KEY_ALBUM_ART,
                                    sessionCurrentBitmap
                                )
                            }

                            return MediaDescriptionCompat.Builder()
                                .setIconBitmap(sessionCurrentBitmap)
                                .setExtras(extras)
                                .build()
                        }
                it.setPlayer(mPlayer)
            }

Here is a small brief on that how to refresh or invalidate MediaSession in the given below issue on GitHub:

https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues/5494

Upvotes: 0

marcbaechinger
marcbaechinger

Reputation: 2789

For playback controls on the lock screen you need to do a MediaStyle notification.

If you want to have an artwork as the lockscreen background you need to support MediaSession and maintain the metadata of the session properly:

new MediaMetadata.Builder(track)
   .putBitmap(MediaMetadata.METADATA_KEY_ALBUM_ART, bitmap)
   .putBitmap(MediaMetadata.METADATA_KEY_DISPLAY_ICON, bitmap) 
   .build();

Upvotes: 1

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