Solution to traditional approach - devrath/MediaAlchemySuite GitHub Wiki

Connecting your player to a media session allows you

• To expose what you are currently playing.
• Allows you to control your player from outside your app.

Basically to control your playback from many different contexts

• After Android-11 your media will be reflected on the notification bar as media control box.
• It can display metadata and playback controls in the quick settings panel.
• Users can control their media using wear-os using notification, voice-enabled commands using google assistant, etc.
• Basically to control your playback from many different contexts.

There were a lot of libraries involved

• Observe there are 2-players, 2-widgets, 2-sessions, 2-common libraries.
• Lot of duplicated code.
• Each with limitations and advantages makes it difficult to know what to use when it comes to compatibility issues.

• As a result one cohesive block of libraries is provided to avoid confusion, compatibility, and a simpler approach.