Reliably Pausing Media Playback System-Wide in Android

Question

The title makes this sound much simpler than it is.. I\'m trying to broadcast an intent that will pause most music players.

I know I can use create a KeyEvent for th

Answer 1

I ran across this as well. Thanks to your description of it, I think i understand what's going on. You send the keydown event, but never the keyup so to the system thinks the play/pause button is being continuously pressed. I used this piece of code successfully.

Intent mediaEvent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_BUTTON);
KeyEvent event = new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY); 
mediaEvent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_KEY_EVENT, event);
context.sendBroadcast(mediaEvent);

new Timer().schedule(new TimerTask() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        Intent mediaEvent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_BUTTON);
        KeyEvent event = new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_UP,KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MEDIA_PLAY); 
        mediaEvent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_KEY_EVENT, event);
        context.sendBroadcast(mediaEvent);
    }
}, 100);