[android-developers] Re: Can an Android app have exclusive access to the audio h/w?

Yes, but the audio focus request can be turned down by the system or
may be unsuccessful due to other reasons.

On Mar 23, 2:31 pm, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> The supported way to do with this scenario is by requesting audio focus:
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> http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/AudioManager.htm...,
> int, int)
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> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:09 PM, dharmveer <dharmv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am tryingto build an app that will alert the user in case of an
> > emergency by playing an audio file. To override situations where the
> > user may be playing loud music and the emergency announcement may not
> > be heard by the user (due to sharing of audio h/w with multiple apps),
> > can I get exclusive access to audio output so only my audio stream is
> > audible and rest all are stopped/killed/muted? I have tried a lot of
> > googling and studied the sdk documentation but did not find anything
> > that can solve my problem. Thanks for your time.
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