Streams

Android

Streams represent the different types of sound that can be generated from a device, inlcuding ring volumes, notifications, alarms and music. Most of the time you'll only be interested in the default music stream.

Android gives access to all the streams in the VolumeStream class.

On iOS there is only the music stream available to developers.

if (Volume.isSupported)
{
    var volume:Number = Volume.service.getVolume( VolumeStream.STREAM_MUSIC );
}   

On Android you can set the default stream that will get controlled by the volume keys. The default is generally the ring volume so you can call this function to change the default to be one of the other supported streams.

if (Volume.isSupported)
{
    Volume.service.setVolumeControlStream( VolumeStream.STREAM_MUSIC );
}