Zoom Video Android SDK audio output to earpiece

Video SDK Android
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Description

Whenever the user joins a session, they always use the speaker instead of earpiece.
I am wondering if there a way to config the audio settings to let it use the earpiece instead?
I checked the SDK reference and can’t find any.

Which Android Video SDK version?
1.13.11

To Reproduce(If applicable)
Pick up a VOIP call, and verify the user is using speaker

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

  • Device: [e.g. Samsung S21]
  • OS: [e.g. Android 14]
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Hi @fteng You can try the setSpeaker method in the AudioHelper class, set to false.

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Hi Ticorrian

Thanks for your reply. Apologies for the lack of clarity in my previous message.

We’re successfully using setSpeaker for user actions during a call. The issue is that we can’t configure the speaker mode when initializing the call. For example, this code doesn’t work as expected:

audioHelper.startAudio();
audioHelper.setSpeaker(false);

Our current workaround is set the speaker mode with a delay which is not ideal

   audioHelper.startAudio();
    new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).postDelayed(() -> {
      audioHelper.setSpeaker(false);
      audioHelper.setSpeaker(true);
      audioHelper.setSpeaker(false);
    }, 1000);

Is there a way to configure the audio so it can start with the speaker off?
Thanks in advance.

Kind regards
Fei Teng

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Hi @fteng, from my testing, I am able to call this function from my onUserAudioStatusChanged event callback function when the user joins the meeting. In the function, if the user is the current user, I call another function that executes this code:

fun testLogic(): Unit {
        val user: ZoomVideoSDKUser = ZoomVideoSDK.getInstance().session.mySelf
        val audioHelper: ZoomVideoSDKAudioHelper = ZoomVideoSDK.getInstance().audioHelper
        val audioType: ZoomVideoSDKAudioStatus.ZoomVideoSDKAudioType? = user.audioStatus?.audioType

        audioHelper.startAudio()
        audioHelper.setSpeaker(false);
        _zoomSessionUIState.update { it.copy( audioConnected = true, muted = true )}
    }

Then I run ZoomVideoSDK.getInstance().audioHelper.speakerStatus to check that the status is updated.

Is your join flow similar to this?

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Thanks Ticorrian
This flow works for us! I think this is due to a race condition in our codebase.