How to use the new MediaSession class to receive media button presses on Android 5.x?

Question

I’m attempting to receive media button presses using the new MediaSession class and so far I’ve been unsuccessful. Has anyone managed to receive them using the new class?

Answer 1

onMediaButtonEvent(..) has a default implementation in MediaSession.Callback. In your code if you call super.onMediaButtonEvent(..), then depending on the keycodes the correct callback namely onPlay(), onPause() will be called.

You can take a look at the default implementation in MediaSession.java