Pause music player on a phone call and again resume it after phone call in android

Question

I am using android.media.MediaPlayer object to play audio files in my app. Everything works fine but when a phone call comes while a song is playing the app does not pause the media player and you can hear the song during the phone call. Please tell me how to pause media player on a phone call and again resume it after call is ended.

Answer 1

Use a PhoneStateListener to find out when the phone is in use.

Answer 2

When your Activity (or service) is interrupted by the phone call place MediaPlayer#pause() into Activity#onPause and code that resumes playing into Activity#onResume I think the problem may be that the MediaPlayer is executed in its own thread and when your Activity is paused it doesn't mean that MediaPlayer is automatically paused as well