How to detect if the audio is currently playing on an Android phone speaker?

Question

I need to have some custom behavior in my app when the audio playback is done on the device speaker (not a wired headphone and not a BlueTooth receiver). To do so I'm doing the following

    AudioManager audioManager = (AudioManager) service.getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
    isSpeakerPhoneOn = audioManager.isSpeakerphoneOn();

But isSpeakerPhoneOn is always false. By the way, I'm calling the code after playback is started.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '19 at 02:12

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I suggest you to try this

AudioManager manager = (AudioManager)this.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
if(manager.isMusicActive())
 {
     // do something - or don't
 }

answered May 27 '19 at 02:12

Jamal Alkelani

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This is returning true even though I'm listening through a BT headset – user1026605 May 27 '19 at 02:17
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do you want to check if the speaker is playing or if the BT headset is playing ? – Jamal Alkelani May 27 '19 at 02:18
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I want to know if there's some sound coming out of the phone speakers – user1026605 May 27 '19 at 02:20
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yeah isMusicActive() should works perfectly ! for the phone speaker... I don't know if it works with BT headset – Jamal Alkelani May 27 '19 at 02:21
it returns true during playback, no matter if it's routed through a BT receiver – user1026605 May 27 '19 at 02:24
I'm afraid that I don't understand what clearly you want, could you describe that precisely, such that I can help – Jamal Alkelani May 27 '19 at 02:32
I just want to know when my playback is done through the device speaker – user1026605 May 27 '19 at 18:02

How to detect if the audio is currently playing on an Android phone speaker?

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