Control the default music player of android or any other music player

Question

How to control the default music player of android or any other player? By controlling i mean pause, play, next etc. Do i have to bind the service? I have tried to use the <

Answer 1

If you want to control the music player (the current playing one) there is a way to send KeyEvents to it:

if (mAudioManager == null) mAudioManager = (AudioManager)getSystemService(AUDIO_SERVICE);

KeyEvent event = new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY);
mAudioManager.dispatchMediaKeyEvent(event);

This is a safer way, cause usually broadcasting keyEvent could cause to play more than one player at a time.

Note: it needs to have minSdk 19 or more.