u/BeastModeAlllDay

I was looking into how to stop the Uber app from ducking audio and saw a lot of workarounds like using two phones or Samsung specific fixes, but nothing universal that was a true fix.

The universal solution is to use Android appops and set the permission TAKE_AUDIO_FOCUS to ignore.

If you are on PC and have adb installed run the following command.

adb shell appops set com.ubercab.driver TAKE_AUDIO_FOCUS ignore

I used ShizuTools's localshell to set the permission without needing a PC.

This is how you can check the current setting.

https://preview.redd.it/gzidrebxr11h1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03014606cac87325366276e63f909df9a92fc17e

This command sets the permission TAKE_AUDIO_FOCUS to ignore

appops set com.ubercab.driver TAKE_AUDIO_FOCUS ignore

The command does not give you any feedback. You can verify the status and confirm this is what you see.

https://preview.redd.it/fub581ues11h1.png?width=885&format=png&auto=webp&s=ff55fc915bd2b32a0d9a293f14a6db4c8cb58b16