Add documentation for Android Media Controls feature#1304
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| - **Play/pause** — start or pause playback | ||
| - **Next/previous track** — skip to the next or previous track | ||
| - **Seek** — scrub to a specific position in the current track | ||
| - **Progress bar** — shows playback progress, even for entities that don't support seeking |
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What do you mean by even for entities that don't support seeking
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| 1. In the Home Assistant app, go to **Settings** > **Companion App** > **Media controls**. |
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We could make a deeplink to that. @jpelgrom did we consider doing deeplinks to settings?
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I wanted to be able to control a media player entity natively on Android without having to open the app or navigate to a widget. So I added a feature to expose a Home Assistant
media_playerentity as native Android Media Controls in the notification shade, the same UI used by other media players on Android. That PR can be found here.Type of change
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