Sonos for Android brings the media player to life, lock screen controls

Next to it debut of new speakersSonos has finally updated its Android software to revive support for the system’s built-in media player and lock screen controls, as well as volume control functions using buttons.

All types of media apps almost universally support Android’s media playback controls, including support for both notification/Quick Settings and lock screen controls. You can find it basically everywhere, so having a Sonos app is pretty annoying had no support for it in the last few years since its demolition.

Finally, he came back.

Sonos confirmed As of this week, the latest Sonos app for Android update has largely revived support for controlling the platform’s media player. Users started to notice it’s over the past week, but apparently it’s now available to everyone – you can check for updates on the Play Store if you still don’t see it.

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The updated app shows the media currently playing from the Sonos app, as well as which speakers/groups are being used for output. Volume control also works even as you would expect for a media release if the app is not open and uses the phone’s physical buttons.

It comes just in time for the latest Sonos releases in the Play portable speaker, as well as the more affordable $189 home speaker, the Era 100 SL.

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