Android : Launch Music Player via Service

Question

I am trying to launch the MediaPlayer from a service, and its not wroking as expected. I m getting the following exception,

android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.MUSIC_PLAYER flg=0x10000000 }

Please find the snippet of code that gets invoked in the service,

Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.INTENT_ACTION_MUSIC_PLAYER);
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(intent);

Android Manifest

<service android:name="com.lakshmi.shakenfun.AlertService" >
    <intent-filter >
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MUSIC_PLAYER" />
    </intent-filter>
</service>

Please do let me know, where I am doing wrong.

My target platform is 8

Thanks, Ramesh

You can't start a `Service` using `startActivity(intent);`. To start a `Service` you use `startService(...)`. — Squonk, Dec 31 '12 at 22:24
Are you trying to start the device's media player? If so, why do you have the `MEDIA_PLAYER` action defined on an `` of your own service? With respect to the error, apparently there is no activity on your device or emulator that supports that particular `Intent` action. — CommonsWare, Dec 31 '12 at 23:37
I need to launch a media player from a service. I don't want to start a service. I referred this link to launch a media player from my service, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3114471/android-launching-music-player-using-intent To simply launch the music player do: Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.INTENT_ACTION_MUSIC_PLAYER); startActivity(intent); — Ramesh Sangili, Jan 02 '13 at 00:06
I wanted to open the Media player by default and play the first song by default. Is it possible to do that? — Ramesh Sangili, Jan 02 '13 at 00:35

carl Parziale · Answer 1 · 2013-02-23T19:27:07.963

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Perhaps your Target Platform of 8 is too low for that api? Do you have this music player loaded? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.music&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5nb29nbGUuYW5kcm9pZC5tdXNpYyJd

edited Feb 23 '13 at 19:27

answered Feb 23 '13 at 17:24

carl Parziale

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You are right. I don't have this music player but after installing this app, the above code is working fine. But how to launch any music app without installing this particular app? – Atul Bhardwaj Jul 19 '13 at 07:00

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 22 '14 at 12:30

MediaStore.INTENT_ACTION_MUSIC_PLAYER is deprecated from API 15 the new code is:

try {
    String pkgname = "com.sec.android.app.music";
    PackageManager pkgmanager = getPackageManager();
    Intent intent = pkgmanager.getLaunchIntentForPackage(pkgname);
    startActivity(intent);
} catch(Exception e) {
    // music player not found
}

Just add this code on your button listener and it will call the default music player.

Android : Launch Music Player via Service

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