Media Player Intents

The HMT comes with a built in media player app which is fully optimized for being controlled by voice commands.

Play Media

If you want the media player app to play some media for your app, use the following intent.

Note: this is the default intent that is described in Google’s API.

Intent.ACTION_VIEW

Supported File Types

  • .mp4
  • .mkv
  • .webm
  • .mov

Example

For an example of how to play your files in the media player, see our developer example.