You are interpreting me correctly. So if i understand what you're saying correctly, I should not be using an Activity for this. Could I use a Service instead?
Thanks On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Raghav Sood > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since I don't actually use an intent to > > start that activity, just directly call the play() and stop() methods, > would > > it be possible that the onCreate() is never called, and mPlayer stays > null? > > Wait, whoa, what? > > If I am interpreting you correctly, you have a subclass of Activity > that you are not launching via startActivity(), but are creating an > instance via a constructor. > > In that case, the advice is very simple: > > Never do that. > > Never create an Activity instance via a constructor. Always use > startActivity(). If you aren't expecting this to actually show > something on the screen, then it should not be an Activity. > > Not only is an Activity created via its constructor simply invalid for > pretty much all uses, but it certainly won't go through the lifecycle > progression (onCreate(), etc.). > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) > http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy > http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training in NYC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- Raghav Sood http://www.androidactivist.org/ - Author http://www.appaholics.in/ - Founder -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
