I assume that you have all the needed information about the streams which you are going to play which means you have also the length information of the stream. When you start the stream start also a timer on your mobile device and run it down. If you pause the stream, try to retrieve the actual position from your player where the stream is stopped.
I would avoid sending any information about current position information over Wifi because in worse case you won't be accurate. You should consider that your TCP connection is only from type BEST and your Wifi channel might get congested). -- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Aug 16, 1:29 pm, Rexxars <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a remote control for a media player > (communicating with a TCP socket over Wifi). > When it retrieves information about the current song being played, it > gets the current position and total duration of the song. > Obviously, what I want is a MM:SS display of the current position. > What is the best way to achieve this? > I could use a thread which sleeps, but that's not very accurate. What > is the "proper" way of making it update every second? > > Thanks in advance! > > - Rexxars --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
