The Media APIs are used to play and, in some cases, record media files. This includes audio (e.g., play MP3s or other music files, ringtones, game sound effects, or DTMF tones) and video (e.g., play a video streamed over the web or from local storage).
Other special classes in the package offer the ability to detect the faces of people
in Bitmaps (FaceDetector), control audio routing (to the device or a headset)
and control alerts such as ringtones and phone vibrations (AudioManager).
| AudioManager.OnAudioFocusChangeListener | Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when the audio focus of the system is updated. |
| AudioRecord.OnRecordPositionUpdateListener | Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when an AudioRecord has
reached a notification marker set by setNotificationMarkerPosition(int)
or for periodic updates on the progress of the record head, as set by
setPositionNotificationPeriod(int). |
| AudioTrack.OnPlaybackPositionUpdateListener | Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when the playback head position of an AudioTrack has reached a notification marker or has increased by a certain period. |
| ImageReader.OnImageAvailableListener | Callback interface for being notified that a new image is available. |
| JetPlayer.OnJetEventListener | Handles the notification when the JET engine generates an event. |
| MediaDrm.OnEventListener | Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when a drm event occurs |
| MediaPlayer.OnBufferingUpdateListener | Interface definition of a callback to be invoked indicating buffering status of a media resource being streamed over the network. |
| MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener | Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when playback of a media source has completed. |
| MediaPlayer.OnErrorListener | Interface definition of a callback to be invoked when there has been an error during an asynchronous operation (other errors will throw exceptions at method call time). |
| MediaPlayer.OnInfoListener | Interface definition of a callback to be invoked to communicate some info and/or warning about the media or its playback. |
| MediaPlayer.OnPreparedListener | Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when the media source is ready for playback. |
| MediaPlayer.OnSeekCompleteListener | Interface definition of a callback to be invoked indicating the completion of a seek operation. |
| MediaPlayer.OnTimedTextListener | Interface definition of a callback to be invoked when a timed text is available for display. |
| MediaPlayer.OnVideoSizeChangedListener | Interface definition of a callback to be invoked when the video size is first known or updated |
| MediaRecorder.OnErrorListener | Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when an error occurs while recording. |
| MediaRecorder.OnInfoListener | Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when an error occurs while recording. |
| MediaScannerConnection.MediaScannerConnectionClient | An interface for notifying clients of MediaScannerConnection when a connection to the MediaScanner service has been established and when the scanning of a file has completed. |
| MediaScannerConnection.OnScanCompletedListener | Interface for notifying clients of the result of scanning a requested media file. |
| RemoteControlClient.OnGetPlaybackPositionListener | Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when the media playback position is queried. |
| RemoteControlClient.OnMetadataUpdateListener | Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when one of the metadata values has been updated. |
| RemoteControlClient.OnPlaybackPositionUpdateListener | Interface definition for a callback to be invoked when the media playback position is requested to be updated. |
| RemoteController.OnClientUpdateListener | Interface definition for the callbacks to be invoked whenever media events, metadata and playback status are available. |
| SoundPool.OnLoadCompleteListener |
| AsyncPlayer | Plays a series of audio URIs, but does all the hard work on another thread so that any slowness with preparing or loading doesn't block the calling thread. |
| AudioFormat | The AudioFormat class is used to access a number of audio format and channel configuration constants. |
| AudioManager | AudioManager provides access to volume and ringer mode control. |
| AudioRecord | The AudioRecord class manages the audio resources for Java applications to record audio from the audio input hardware of the platform. |
| AudioTimestamp | Structure that groups a position in frame units relative to an assumed audio stream, together with the estimated time when that frame was presented or is committed to be presented. |
| AudioTrack | The AudioTrack class manages and plays a single audio resource for Java applications. |
| CamcorderProfile | Retrieves the predefined camcorder profile settings for camcorder applications. |
| CameraProfile | The CameraProfile class is used to retrieve the pre-defined still image capture (jpeg) quality levels (0-100) used for low, medium, and high quality settings in the Camera application. |
| ExifInterface | This is a class for reading and writing Exif tags in a JPEG file. |
| FaceDetector | Identifies the faces of people in a
Bitmap graphic object. |
| FaceDetector.Face | A Face contains all the information identifying the location of a face in a bitmap. |
| Image | A single complete image buffer to use with a media source such as a
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| Image.Plane | A single color plane of image data. |
| ImageReader | The ImageReader class allows direct application access to image data
rendered into a Several Android media API classes accept Surface objects as targets to
render to, including |
| JetPlayer | JetPlayer provides access to JET content playback and control. |
| MediaActionSound | A class for producing sounds that match those produced by various actions taken by the media and camera APIs. |
| MediaCodec | MediaCodec class can be used to access low-level media codec, i.e. |
| MediaCodec.BufferInfo | Per buffer metadata includes an offset and size specifying the range of valid data in the associated codec buffer. |
| MediaCodec.CryptoInfo | Metadata describing the structure of a (at least partially) encrypted input sample. |
| MediaCodecInfo | Provides information about a given media codec available on the device. |
| MediaCodecInfo.CodecCapabilities | Encapsulates the capabilities of a given codec component. |
| MediaCodecInfo.CodecProfileLevel | Encapsulates the profiles available for a codec component. |
| MediaCodecList | Allows you to enumerate available codecs, each specified as a MediaCodecInfo object,
find a codec supporting a given format and query the capabilities
of a given codec. |
| MediaCrypto | MediaCrypto class can be used in conjunction with MediaCodec
to decode encrypted media data. |
| MediaDrm | MediaDrm can be used to obtain keys for decrypting protected media streams, in
conjunction with MediaCrypto. |
| MediaDrm.CryptoSession | In addition to supporting decryption of DASH Common Encrypted Media, the MediaDrm APIs provide the ability to securely deliver session keys from an operator's session key server to a client device, based on the factory-installed root of trust, and then perform encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify operations with the session key on arbitrary user data. |
| MediaDrm.KeyRequest | Contains the opaque data an app uses to request keys from a license server |
| MediaDrm.ProvisionRequest | Contains the opaque data an app uses to request a certificate from a provisioning server |
| MediaExtractor | MediaExtractor facilitates extraction of demuxed, typically encoded, media data from a data source. |
| MediaFormat | Encapsulates the information describing the format of media data, be it audio or video. |
| MediaMetadataEditor | An abstract class for editing and storing metadata that can be published by
RemoteControlClient. |
| MediaMetadataRetriever | MediaMetadataRetriever class provides a unified interface for retrieving frame and meta data from an input media file. |
| MediaMuxer | MediaMuxer facilitates muxing elementary streams. |
| MediaMuxer.OutputFormat | Defines the output format. |
| MediaPlayer | MediaPlayer class can be used to control playback of audio/video files and streams. |
| MediaPlayer.TrackInfo | Class for MediaPlayer to return each audio/video/subtitle track's metadata. |
| MediaRecorder | Used to record audio and video. |
| MediaRecorder.AudioEncoder | Defines the audio encoding. |
| MediaRecorder.AudioSource | Defines the audio source. |
| MediaRecorder.OutputFormat | Defines the output format. |
| MediaRecorder.VideoEncoder | Defines the video encoding. |
| MediaRecorder.VideoSource | Defines the video source. |
| MediaRouter | MediaRouter allows applications to control the routing of media channels and streams from the current device to external speakers and destination devices. |
| MediaRouter.Callback | Interface for receiving events about media routing changes. |
| MediaRouter.RouteCategory | Definition of a category of routes. |
| MediaRouter.RouteGroup | Information about a route that consists of multiple other routes in a group. |
| MediaRouter.RouteInfo | Information about a media route. |
| MediaRouter.SimpleCallback | Stub implementation of MediaRouter.Callback. |
| MediaRouter.UserRouteInfo | Information about a route that the application may define and modify. |
| MediaRouter.VolumeCallback | Interface for receiving events about volume changes. |
| MediaScannerConnection | MediaScannerConnection provides a way for applications to pass a newly created or downloaded media file to the media scanner service. |
| MediaSyncEvent | The MediaSyncEvent class defines events that can be used to synchronize playback or capture actions between different players and recorders. |
| Rating | A class to encapsulate rating information used as content metadata. |
| RemoteControlClient | RemoteControlClient enables exposing information meant to be consumed by remote controls capable of displaying metadata, artwork and media transport control buttons. |
| RemoteControlClient.MetadataEditor | Class used to modify metadata in a RemoteControlClient object. |
| RemoteController | The RemoteController class is used to control media playback, display and update media metadata
and playback status, published by applications using the RemoteControlClient class. |
| RemoteController.MetadataEditor | A class to read the metadata published by a RemoteControlClient, or send a
RemoteControlClient new values for keys that can be edited. |
| Ringtone | Ringtone provides a quick method for playing a ringtone, notification, or other similar types of sounds. |
| RingtoneManager | RingtoneManager provides access to ringtones, notification, and other types of sounds. |
| SoundPool | The SoundPool class manages and plays audio resources for applications. |
| ThumbnailUtils | Thumbnail generation routines for media provider. |
| TimedText | Class to hold the timed text's metadata, including:
To render the timed text, applications need to do the following:
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| ToneGenerator | This class provides methods to play DTMF tones (ITU-T Recommendation Q.23), call supervisory tones (3GPP TS 22.001, CEPT) and proprietary tones (3GPP TS 31.111). |
| DeniedByServerException | Exception thrown when the provisioning server or key server denies a certficate or license for a device. |
| MediaCodec.CryptoException | Thrown when a crypto error occurs while queueing a secure input buffer. |
| MediaCryptoException | Exception thrown if MediaCrypto object could not be instantiated for whatever reason. |
| MediaDrmException | Base class for MediaDrm exceptions |
| NotProvisionedException | Exception thrown when an operation on a MediaDrm object is attempted and the device does not have a certificate. |
| ResourceBusyException | Exception thrown when an operation on a MediaDrm object is attempted and hardware resources are not available, due to being in use. |
| UnsupportedSchemeException | Exception thrown when an attempt is made to construct a MediaDrm object using a crypto scheme UUID that is not supported by the device |