Thanks for your reply, I'm looking into the documentation for Services now.
Tom
On 19/04/2010 19:31, Justin Anderson wrote:
First, whatever is playing the music should run as a service and not
as an activity... I would probably create a NowPlayingService and a
NowPlayingActivity.
Activities don't run in the background. When they are no longer
visible they are paused by the OS. Services are allowed to run in the
background and that is exactly how the built-in music player on
Android works. It has a service in the background that actually plays
the music.
You can find more about this here:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#servlife
If you are already doing that then I'm not sure offhand what the
problem is exactly. You may need to provide more details unless
someone else has any idea...
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Tom F M White <fred...@gmail.com
<mailto:fred...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi
I'm making a simple media player app, that streams files from a site.
Currently the fundamentals of my app work, it is downloading the track
info, and playing the files fine. However, at the moment it isn't
working in a user-friendly manner, and usually getting it to play more
than one song is a big problem. Here is the basic structure:
The main Activity is a ListActivity, on which the list of tracks
on the
site is displayed.
Clicking these launches a Details Activity, which shows track info,
artwork etc. and a play button.
The play button launches the NowPlaying Activity, where the content is
fetched and played.
The idea is that once a track is playing, the user can continue to
browse other tracks, and return to the NowPlaying Activity via the
menu.
At the moment, I can go back to the list, or to the Details
Activity for
the song that is playing, but loading up the Details Activity for
another song causes the sound to stop, and then trying to play other
songs doesn't work, they do not buffer or play.
I'm pretty sure this is because rather than re-using the same
Details/NowPlaying Activities to display different content, new
ones are
getting spawned but I'm not sure about this, or sure how I would
overcome this. In particular it is important there is only one
NowPlaying Activity, as this handles Notifications, and contains the
MediaPlayer object, of which I only want one. I'm not really sure what
to ask for, perhaps my explanation of the problem can help someone
point
out what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks in advance
Tom
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