VideoView is stopping music player

Question

Well I've done an app in android studio and this app has a video running in background for the Login. The video is in a VideoView and works perfectly but when I was testing it in my phone while I was playing music I noticed that it pauses the music player. How can I solve this?

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_login);
    vid = findViewById(R.id.videoView2);
    Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://"+getPackageName()+"/"+R.raw.video);
    vid.setVideoURI(uri);
    vid.start();
    vid.setOnPreparedListener(new MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener() {
        @Override
        public void onPrepared(MediaPlayer mp) {
            mp.setLooping(true);
        }
    });
    usuRut = findViewById(R.id.usuRut);
    girPass = findViewById(R.id.usuPass);
    girId = findViewById(R.id.girId);
}

This is where I run the video.

Possible duplicate of [How to prevent VideoView/MediaPlayer from stopping other apps' audio?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29280191/how-to-prevent-videoview-mediaplayer-from-stopping-other-apps-audio) — IteratioN7T, Sep 14 '18 at 08:23

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 31 '19 at 10:20

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videoView.setAudioFocusRequest(AudioManager.AUDIOFOCUS_NONE);

answered Oct 31 '19 at 10:20

Prayag

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This is only available from api level 26 and up – James Sep 28 '21 at 15:08

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 29 '18 at 14:08

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You need to use the setAudioFocusRequest method. It's only available from API level 26

answered Jan 29 '18 at 14:08

Ravjit Singh

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well that works, but how do I do that in previous API? – Asez97 Jan 29 '18 at 14:20
you can do this for the previous APIs https://stackoverflow.com/a/31569930/2577423 – Ravjit Singh Jan 29 '18 at 14:29

VideoView is stopping music player

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