Well I took the advice of Kostya and used prepareAsync() and that way I don't have to worry about the AsyncTask running every time the activity comes back into focus. But thanks for the suggestion.
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Harish <agarwal.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey DanielleM, how about you start the media as a service - does that > change the behavior? > > On Feb 14, 2:15 pm, DanielleM <dmurkerso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all: > > > > I'm trying to use an AsyncTask to prepare two MediaPlayer objects > > while the rest of my activity loads. However, I've noticed that once > > everything is loaded...I'm able to play my media player just fine, but > > if I switch to another activity in my app and then switch back to the > > media player activity the Media Player objects get re-created and so > > the code I have in the onClick listeners for the buttons no longer > > works. > > > > Basically, the app loads, the streams are set up..once this is done > > you can press play to play one of the streams and then stop to pause > > it. But if I switch to another activity while the streams are playing > > and then go back to the MediaPlayer activity, I can no longer stop the > > streams. > > > > Does an AsyncTask run every time the activity is brought back to the > > front? That doesn't seem right since the code is in the onCreate > > method and the activity should not be re-created every time it's > > brought back to the front. > > > > If anyone can shed some light on what's happening here I'd really > > appreciate it. > > > > The buttons and streams were functioning properly before I started > > pushing the setup code to an AsyncTask...I just figured it was too > > taxing on the system to do the set up in the main thread. So I decided > > to push that to a background thread while the rest of the activity > > loads. > > > > Thanks, > > DanielleM > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
