Thanks very much. Yes, the user is waiting with a progress bar and the media player begins playing upon completion. I'll look into AsyncTask.
Thanks again, Rusty On Jan 14, 3:45 pm, Jason Proctor <jason.android.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > what's going on while the mp3 is being downloaded? is the user > waiting for it, with a progress bar? is the user to be presented with > the media player when the download completes, regardless of what else > they might be doing? > > as always i would recommend AsyncTask for doing this stuff, it has > nice hooks for doing things in the appropriate threads at the > appropriate time. > > hth > > > > >Why don't you simply use thread join wait and notify? Curious... > > >On Jan 13, 8:21 pm,rastyrori<rastyr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've got an activity that calls a helper class called DownloadManager. > >> DownloadManager spawns a thread that downloads a mp3 to the sdcard. > >> I'm having some trouble finding the best design for resuming the > >> initial activity and starting the MediaPlayer. Does it make the most > >> sense to use a BroadcastReceiver that receives a message that download > >> is complete, then start a new Intent of my activity? Think I saw > >> something that I can't use an Intent to start an Activity from > >> BroadcastReceiver because it is a background process. Any ideas how to > >> solve this would be very much appreciated. > > >-- > >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 > > -- > jason.vp.engineering.particle
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