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[sheep19]

I will explain my situation briefly:

Let's say I'm on my android phone and I set the volume to 0 (silent).
Then I start my application. Inside my app, I start playing music (using MediaPlayer).
I don't want the music to start playing - but it does, even though the phone is silenced. I'm not saying that's wrong.

So what I want to do is to "get" the volume of the device (it would have to be 0 or 0.0 in this case) and set it using: audioManager.setStreamVolume().

How can I get that information?

[frob]

I'd try adjustSuggestedStreamVolume instead.

That will raise and lower the volume by one increment, and it will operate correctly if the device has weird audio streams.

[6677]

Just an FYI, android maintains 3 seperate volume levels. Ringer volume (which is what the silent mode refers to), Media volume (which I think is the only one apps can play with directly) and In call volume.