A Cordova plugin for displaying interactive music controls in notifications and handling media button events.
Cordova Music Controls Plugin is a Cordova plugin that adds native music control notifications to hybrid mobile applications. It displays interactive media controls (play, pause, next, previous) in the notification area and handles headset and hardware media button events, enabling audio apps to provide a seamless user experience similar to native music players.
Cordova/PhoneGap developers building audio streaming, podcast, or music player applications that require background playback control via notifications.
It provides a cross-platform solution for media notifications without requiring native code, simplifying the implementation of professional playback controls and hardware integration for Cordova-based audio apps.
A Cordova plugin displaying music controls in notifications (cordova-plugin-music-controls)
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Supports Android, iOS, and Windows, enabling media notifications across multiple mobile platforms for Cordova apps, as listed in the supported platforms section.
Captures a wide range of playback and hardware events, including play, pause, next, previous, and specific headset/media button events for Android and iOS, detailed in the event list.
Allows configuration of icons, track info, and cover art (local or remote), with options to hide buttons and set platform-specific icons, as shown in the create method parameters.
Supports advanced features like scrubber events and skip intervals in iOS Control Center, enhancing the native experience with options like hasScrubbing and skip intervals.
The plugin is no longer maintained, with the README explicitly stating this and redirecting to a fork, risking bugs, security issues, and incompatibility with newer Cordova or OS versions.
Features vary by platform—e.g., scrubber events are iOS-only, headset events Android-only—leading to inconsistent implementation and added complexity for cross-platform apps.
Setting up custom icons on Android requires managing drawable resources, and iOS features like skip intervals need precise handling, increasing development overhead compared to simpler plugins.