Comments for Alex Curelea's Dev Log

Comment on Android - binding to the Music app service to find currently playing song by Grzegorz Madajczak

Grzegorz Madajczak — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:22:11 +0000

mytharak :
Cool article!
You should be able to access the media player’s service from your app without including it manually.
Have you tried “import com.android.music.IMediaPlaybackService” instead of manually including the aidl file?

It is impossible, because com.android.music is not in android SDK.

Comment on Android - binding to the Music app service to find currently playing song by Grzegorz Madajczak

Grzegorz Madajczak — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:11:11 +0000

Hello!
First of all - thank you for nice article. It’s clear and very usefull.
I tried to implement this method in my project, but always I have exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.SecurityException: Binder invocation to an incorrect interface.
My pastebin with whole exception is: http://android.pastebin.com/Xj7WpiJ3.

I will be appreciated for advice, how to resolve this problem…
I will add, that this is the same problem as in #10 post by Sathya.

Comment on Web Projects by Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:28:40 +0000

Hi, Alex. Could you please delete all the pictures on bestsporecreatures.com, I mean all the pictures which have nothing to do with Spore. That would be so nice of you!!!^^

Comment on UIScrollView and UIDatePicker (or UIPickerView) by Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:13:33 +0000

Thanks Ian, that worked great.

Comment on Android - binding to the Music app service to find currently playing song by chopcsu

chopcsu — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:07:54 +0000

So found out HTC have started using their own music player, as well as Sony Ericsson, so this method will not work on X10’s & Legends..will post other phones I come across that do not have the default android music player

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Comment on The iPad’s name is a joke by Finley Mitchell

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Comment on Android - binding to the Music app service to find currently playing song by mytharak

mytharak — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:26:53 +0000

Cool article!

You should be able to access the media player’s service from your app without including it manually.

Have you tried “import com.android.music.IMediaPlaybackService” instead of manually including the aidl file?

Comment on Android - binding to the Music app service to find currently playing song by chopcsu

chopcsu — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:50:38 +0000

Does anyone if there are any other mechanisms to detect a song change other than just polling?