I am working on implementing voice commands for Android Auto using media player callback methods. I am having trouble getting Auto to recognize that I am asking to play a title on my application: “Play [x] on MyApp”. I understand that it takes a few days after being published for this command to work, but I should still be able to say “Play [x]” while the media session is already running and it should use onPrepareFromSearch and onPlayFromSearch methods to search for and play content.
When I say “Play [x] on MyApp” I get the response “I looked for [x] on MyApp on Google Play Music but it either isn’t available or it can’t be played right now”.
When I say “Play [x]” while my media service is running it will usually redirect me to Google Play Music.
I am able to pause, resume, skip forward and skip backward using voice commands and I see those being logged but when I try to perform a voice search neither onPrepareFromSearch nor onPlayFromSearch are called.
Things I have tried:
- Added an
<intent-filter>forMEDIA_PLAY_FROM_SEARCHto an activity in my application as to mark my application available to search for media - Implemented
onPrepareFromSearchandonPlayFromSearchin myMediaSessionCompat.Callback - Added
ACTION_PLAY_FROM_SEARCHandACTION_PREPARE_FROM_SEARCHas supported actions. - Set the media session flags
FLAG_HANDLES_MEDIA_BUTTONSandFLAG_HANDLES_TRANSPORT_CONTROLS - Added support for Android Auto as per the documentation here: https://developer.android.com/training/cars/media/auto
Is there a step I am missing in order to get this to work?
