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title: "Mapp Intelligence: Android SDK – Media Tracking"
slug: "mapp-intelligence-android-sdk-media-tracking"
updated: 2024-04-04T09:52:23Z
published: 2024-04-04T09:52:24Z
canonical: "docs.mapp.com/mapp-intelligence-android-sdk-media-tracking"
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# Mapp Intelligence: Android SDK – Media Tracking

**04 Aug 2020** Media Tracking is now available via Mapp's media tracking API. Use this functionality to track how your mobile app users interact with your media files.

## Key Benefits

- Track user behavior on video and audio files: Find out whether your users prefer to watch videos with or without sound, or the total play duration.
- Define your own media actions: Capture, for example, a click on a "Recommend" link as a media action to evaluate the time of the click within the video.
- Gather info to optimize your media files: Analyze the data and improve the media content to attract more app users.

## How Does It Work?

1. To start a media session, the API expects an initial "play" or "init" call. Otherwise no session is initiated and no actions can be tracked.
2. To end a media session, the "eof" action needs to be sent to Mapp.
3. After an "eof" is send, "play" would start a new media session.

[Refer to this page](/v1/docs/object-oriented-tracking) for detailed information on available parameters, API constraints and code examples.

> [!WARNING]
> Important
> 
> Media Tracking is only available for Android v5.0.2 or higher.

## Related topics

[Android SDK v5 - Technical Documentation](/v1/docs/android-sdk-v5)