Thank you Mark.... Do you happen to know where I can find an example of MediaPlayer as a Service? Did some searching but what I found didn't get me to where I wanted to be. The examples I found had a single audio being played and stopped via the service and I could not figure out how to add more than one audio file.
-Marc On Feb 16, 1:27 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > MarcC wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to stop media player that was started in a > > previous activity? > > You can't directly, AFAIK. > > > For ex. In activity-1 button pressed that did - mp.start(); then > > activity-2 starts for different layout with new buttons, then when > > button pressed, mp.stop is called, but does not stop the media from > > the first activity. > > You would need the second activity to somehow notify the first activity > to stop the playback. Ideally, you would just do all of this in one > activity, or have the MediaPlayer be managed by a service, as > activity<->activity communications on-the-fly strikes me as a more > fragile pattern. > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android App Developer Books:http://commonsware.com/books -- 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
