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... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 types of people in the world... Those who know binary and those who don't. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Tom F M White <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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > > NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-beginners%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. NEW! Try asking and tagging your question on Stack Overflow at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/android To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en
