Have you always challenged a situation where you release an app or a game on your Android device and you need to cover the speakers, just to ensure that the sound does not make an irritation to people around you? If you have, let me guarantee you that you are not the only one. This issue arises partially because of Android’s volume settings. Android gives you chance to control your ring volume, media volume from the volume rockers.

what if we need to keep different volumes by default for a video player app and a game?

The simple solutions for the issue can be the ability to set individual media volumes for individual apps & games. This method does not require root access and the app we are discussing about works on all Android devices running Android 4.4 KitKat.

Controlling Volume of Individual Apps using App Volume Control

App Volume Control is a volume manager for Android, which easily manage media volume of individual applications on Android. The best about app is that it extends its functionality to Bluetooth speakers and headphones, so that we can set a different volume for an app when we using an accessory.

The first time you install and launch the app, it will ask you to grant it accessibility settings to start the App Volume Control Services, which is necessary for the app to work.

Once the accessibility permission is approved, you will see a list of all the apps installed on your device and which you can configure to set a custom volume. The list features both user installed and system apps.

Note:

Due to Android’s system limitations, the app decreases the volume on a system level and not at the app level. For example, if you are planning to use App Volume Control to lower the media volume of a game to listen to Spotify track in the background, that will not be possible. The app will decrease the media volume of the device as soon as you release the configured game, which will affect all the apps running in the background.

 When you toggle the switch to activate the service on an app, it will load the configuration panel, where you can control individual volume for speakers, headsets and more accessories. Simply select the desired volume for media, alarm and notification sounds and save the Settings. The service will only affect the volume which you have turned on in the app settings, while the rest will stick to their default parameters.

When you close the app, all the changes you made will be restored to default but you can change it from the “When Closing Tab”. You can either restore to the default state, keep the changes you made or even set a new volume when you exit the app. Once all the changes are made, tap on the save button to save the rules configured for the app.

Note: 

When you launch any of the apps configured by App Volume Control, you will get a notification suggesting that the volume has been adjusted for the particular app. The same will appear when you exit the app.

In the Settings menu, you can choose whether you want to see system apps in the list, along with options to adjust if you would like to see the notification each time the volume is configured by the app.

The app is available in a free version, it has advertisements and it’s limited to control volume of 8 apps at a given time. But, the limitations can be removed along with the advertisements with the pro version of the app for just $0.99.

Uses of App Volume Control

Using the app, we can silent notification tones while listening to music. The notification tones always happen to disturb our music listening experience and we can control it completely by minimizing the notification tone for your default music player. Same goes for Movies, if we like to watch them without the notifications, the App Volume Control can use.

• We can set default volumes for your Bluetooth speakers and headsets while listening to music. This can come especially convenient because we wouldn’t have to set it every time we connect your smartphone to a speaker or headset.
• Set media volume to a minimum for games, so that we can launch them even on speakers without troubling anyone.