Cordova Music Controls Plugin 2

Music controls for Cordova applications. Display a 'media' notification with play/pause, previous, next buttons, allowing the user to control the play. Handles headset events (plug, unplug, headset button).

This plugin is forked from the original which is no longer maintained but which can be found at: https://github.com/homerours/cordova-music-controls-plugin

This plugin is renamed as cordova-plugin-music-controls2 for easy differentiation and to allow for publishing updates to npm to make life easier for everyone.

Supported platforms

• Android (4.1+) (homerours)
• Windows (10+, by filfat)
• iOS 8+ (by 0505gonzalez)

Installation

• Current release cordova plugin add @andeo/cordova-plugin-music-controls2
• Bleeding edge direct from github cordova plugin add https://github.com/andeodev/cordova-plugin-music-controls2

Methods

• Create the media controls:

MusicControls.create({
	track       : 'Time is Running Out',		// optional, default : ''
	artist      : 'Muse',						// optional, default : ''
	album       : 'Absolution',     // optional, default: ''
 	cover       : 'albums/absolution.jpg',		// optional, default : nothing
	// cover can be a local path (use fullpath 'file:///storage/emulated/...', or only 'my_image.jpg' if my_image.jpg is in the www folder of your app)
	//			 or a remote url ('http://...', 'https://...', 'ftp://...')
	isPlaying   : true,							// optional, default : true
	dismissable : true,							// optional, default : false

	// hide previous/next/close buttons:
	hasPrev   : false,		// show previous button, optional, default: true
	hasNext   : false,		// show next button, optional, default: true
	hasClose  : true,		// show close button, optional, default: false

	// iOS only, optional

	duration : 60, // optional, default: 0
	elapsed : 10, // optional, default: 0
  	hasSkipForward : true, //optional, default: false. true value overrides hasNext.
  	hasSkipBackward : true, //optional, default: false. true value overrides hasPrev.
  	skipForwardInterval : 15, //optional. default: 0.
	skipBackwardInterval : 15, //optional. default: 0.
	hasScrubbing : false, //optional. default to false. Enable scrubbing from control center progress bar

	// Android only, optional
	// text displayed in the status bar when the notification (and the ticker) are updated
	ticker	  : 'Now playing "Time is Running Out"',
	//All icons default to their built-in android equivalents
	//The supplied drawable name, e.g. 'media_play', is the name of a drawable found under android/res/drawable* folders
	playIcon: 'media_play',
	pauseIcon: 'media_pause',
	prevIcon: 'media_prev',
	nextIcon: 'media_next',
	closeIcon: 'media_close',
	notificationIcon: 'notification'
}, onSuccess, onError);

• Destroy the media controller:

MusicControls.destroy();

• Subscribe events to the media controller:

function events(action) {

  const message = JSON.parse(action).message;
	switch(message) {
		case 'music-controls-next':
			// Do something
			break;
		case 'music-controls-previous':
			// Do something
			break;
		case 'music-controls-pause':
			// Do something
			break;
		case 'music-controls-play':
			// Do something
			break;
		case 'music-controls-destroy':
			// Do something
			break;
    	case 'music-controls-toggle-play-pause' :
			// Do something
			break;
		// Lockscreen seek controls (iOS only)
    	case 'music-controls-seek-to':
			const seekToInSeconds = JSON.parse(action).position;
			MusicControls.updateElapsed({
				elapsed: seekToInSeconds,
				isPlaying: true
			});
			// Do something
			break;

		// Headset events (Android only)
		// All media button events are listed below
		case 'music-controls-media-button' :
			// Do something
			break;
		case 'music-controls-headset-unplugged':
			// Do something
			break;
		case 'music-controls-headset-plugged':
			// Do something
			break;
		default:
			break;
	}
}

// Register callback
MusicControls.subscribe(events);

// Start listening for events
// The plugin will run the events function each time an event is fired
MusicControls.listen();

• Toggle play/pause:

MusicControls.updateIsPlaying(true); // toggle the play/pause notification button
MusicControls.updateDismissable(true);

• iOS Specific Events: Allows you to listen for iOS events fired from the scrubber in control center.

MusicControls.updateElapsed({
	elapsed: 208, // seconds
	isPlaying: true
});

• Battery optimization (Android only)

Request to disable battery optimizations for this app. This will show a popup for the user to confirm.

MusicControls.disableBatteryOptimizations();

MusicControls.disableBatteryOptimizations() requires an additional permission to work, add this to your config.xml:

<platform name="android">
    <config-file target="AndroidManifest.xml" parent="/manifest">
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS"/>
    </config-file>
</platform>

Alternatively, the following opens the settings for the battery optimization, but the user has to select the app manually. However, this does not require the additional permission:

MusicControls.openBatteryOptimizationSettings();

Check if battery optimizations are enabled:

MusicControls.checkBatteryOptimizations(function (status) {
    // status is either
    // 'enabled' Battery optimization is enabled (the default, unless changed).
    // 'disabled' Batter optimization is disabled.
});

List of media button events

• Default:

'music-controls-media-button'

• Android only:

'music-controls-media-button-next', 'music-controls-media-button-pause', 'music-controls-media-button-play',
'music-controls-media-button-play-pause', 'music-controls-media-button-previous', 'music-controls-media-button-stop',
'music-controls-media-button-fast-forward', 'music-controls-media-button-rewind', 'music-controls-media-button-skip-backward',
'music-controls-media-button-skip-forward', 'music-controls-media-button-step-backward', 'music-controls-media-button-step-forward',
'music-controls-media-button-meta-left', 'music-controls-media-button-meta-right', 'music-controls-media-button-music',
'music-controls-media-button-volume-up', 'music-controls-media-button-volume-down', 'music-controls-media-button-volume-mute',
'music-controls-media-button-headset-hook'

• iOS Only:

'music-controls-skip-forward', 'music-controls-skip-backward'

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request