How to prevent VideoView/MediaPlayer from stopping other apps' audio?

Question

In one screen I have a looping background video (upon which normal UI elements are shown), implemented with VideoView like this:

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Answer 1

Copy paste VideoView from Android sources and comment out these lines:

AudioManager am = (AudioManager) getContext().getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
am.requestAudioFocus(null, AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, AudioManager.AUDIOFOCUS_GAIN);

You could name the new class MutedVideoView, for example.

gist here: https://gist.github.com/vishna/7e9d3466bced8502fcdd