Capturing Audio in Android Q
Posted by Don Turner , Developer Advocate for Android Media In Android Q there's a new API which allows applications to capture the audio of other applications. It's called the AudioPlaybackCapture API and it enables some important use cases for easier content sharing and accessibility. Some examples include: Live captioning - allowing the audio content of the currently playing app to be captioned or translated in real time. In fact, the Live Caption feature shown at I/O this year is a client of this API. Live captioning allows your users to engage with audible content even when it's impossible or inconvenient to do so, such as listening in a public place without headphones. Game recording and streaming - In-game sounds can be recorded and streamed to live audiences, helping to increase the social reach of game content. There may be some situations where a developer wishes to disallow the capture of their app's audio. This article explains how audio capture works for...