Is it possible to control the Rdio Android app from another app?

[Coltin Caverhill]

Can I control the Rdio app from inside another app without Rdio coming to the foreground? Play, stop, pause, ask about currently playing music, etc.

Referring to this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rdio-api/utuih-yu4jk/jgPBWeDYdCcJ

The last post by "Devin S" says he'd talk to the Rdio Mobile Team to see about adding these sort of features, and I'm wondering if that happened?

Currently using an intent like "MediaStore.INTENT_ACTION_MEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCH" is almost ideal for "play", but it launches the app to the foreground. I'd like to use Rdio to do background music (if it's installed).

Thanks,

Coltin

[R. Kevin Nelson]

Hi Coltin,

I just spoke with one of our mobile engineers, and we have implemented these features, with one caveat.

Currently, you can control Rdio without it coming into the foreground in all but one circumstance.  Loading a source (i.e. track, album, playlist) currently requires Rdio to be in the foreground, but we are working on letting that happen in the background as well.

You should be able to do things like skip or play/pause with Rdio in the background, and we are also broadcasting intents when the track changes.

I'll update the other thread to link to this post so that the information is easy to find.

Best,

Kevin

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[Coltin Caverhill]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the quick reply! That's great to hear. Is there any documentation on the current process playing/pausing Rdio in the background?

Additionally when loading songs from tracks/playlists/etc from the background is added, what is the best way to be notified of this feature?

As for the broadcasts I don't require any further information on those. For any Android developers who encounter this post in the future, you can listen to all broadcasts any apps send. Here is an open source project for how: https://github.com/ViliusKraujutis/AndroidBroadcastsMonitor

Cheers,

Coltin

[Pascal Laniel]

I've was trying to find how to do something similar. I got it working by faking a hardware key :

void next()
{

sendBroadcast(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_MEDIA_NEXT);

}

private void sendBroadcast(int keycode)
{

KeyEvent keyEvent = new KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, keycode);

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_BUTTON).setPackage("com.rdio.android.ui").putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_KEY_EVENT, keyEvent);
sendBroadcast(intent);

}

Hope it helps someone!

[Devin Sevilla]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Coltin Caverhill <ultr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply! That's great to hear. Is there any documentation
> on the current process playing/pausing Rdio in the background?
>

I'll be updating the public documentation, but here are the playback controls:

Broadcast: rdio.android.action.playercontrol
Extra Key: com.rdio.android.playercontrolkey
Extra Value: rdio.android.action.playercontrol.xyz, xyz := { toggle,
play, pause, skipforward, skipbackward }

> Additionally when loading songs from tracks/playlists/etc from the
> background is added, what is the best way to be notified of this feature?

We'll make announcement on the Developer Blog[1] and link to it from here.

[1]: http://blog.rdio.com/developers/

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Devin Sevilla
API Engineer, Rdio Inc.
http://rdio.com/people/devin_s/

[Coltin Caverhill]

I'll give these a spin! Thanks for the responses :)

[Anthony Marcinek]

Has anyone been able to get this to work using Llama? I can't seem to get any rdio intents to work. Thanks!