Overview
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Learn how to play audio and video from your Android app. Find out how to support video and audio playback using either the system widgets or Google ExoPlayer.
Syllabus
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Android Multimedia
- Create media rich apps with Android
- What you should know
- Why your app needs audio and video
- Two ways to play: Android or ExoPlayer
- Media locations: Local or streaming
- Playing audio and video
- AudioManager overview
- Set the volume
- Audio focus
- Abandoning audio focus
- Internet and WakeLock permissions
- Setup
- States
- Loading files
- Playing media
- SoundPool overview
- Load files with SoundPool
- Play files with SoundPool
- Hooking UI controls to SoundPool
- VideoView overview
- Create a VideoView UI
- Playing and pausing VideoView
- MediaSession overview
- MediaSession example usage
- Channels
- Notifications
- Background services
- Create MediaPlayer
- Create stop and pause method
- Create play method
- Audio formats
- Video formats
- Overview and library setup
- Initialization
- Load and play media
- Create video and audio player
- Create media sources
- Set up players
- Next steps
