Android :: MediaPlayer - Only One Instance At Any Given Time?
Jun 28, 2010
I have a audio player app, where there is a Main activity that shows 3 audio sample urls. On click on one, it goes to a Details Activity, which has a play and pause button, to start and pause the audio.
My problem is that, when I start the Main activity, and say click on audio 1, I hit play on Details activity. This starts the MediaPlayer and the audio starts to play. When I go back to the Main activity, the audio is still playing, which is what I want. Now, when I click on audio 1 again, and go to Details Activity and hit play again, there seems to be a new MediaPlayer starting the audio. So I have 2 tracks playing together!
Is there a way I can have only one MediaPlayer instance at any given time?
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Apr 25, 2010
I'm and android beginner, so go easy on me. I'm trying to play a sequence of video files which I'm downloading from a server. The challenge is that I want to have a smooth transition from one file to another.
My thought is to have two MediaPlayer instances each preparing and then playing in turn. It is not clear to me if they can both share the same SurfaceView?
Or maybe, I should be using different views and swapping between them? Or, the idea is a bad idea all together?
When I try to run configure the MediaPlayer instance with a view that isn't visible it seems to crash my emulator.
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Apr 27, 2009
I have a requirement to play several sounds many times in my game so instead of creating the MediaPlayer again and again I have called mp.seekTo(0) in onCompletion(mp) so that it will restart. Sometimes the sound is not audible from the device when I call mp.start () after setting mp.seekTo(0); but the player calls onCompletion() without playing any sound, this is observed randomly on most of the sounds
My sounds are of short duration mostly less than a second.
I am using a separate MediaPlayer for each sound (as I need this) -
There are almost 28 sounds in my game so i will be creating 28 MediaPlayers.
Below is the attached code for player
Also If I try to play many sounds one after the other in a short period of time i get an error saying "no more track names available". can u tell Why this is happening...?
check the below code:
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Apr 2, 2009
My application has 2 activities. The main activity will create the "child" activity through startActivityForResult((...). When the child activity needs to exit, it calls setResult(..) and finish(). Child activity will start and exit multiple time upon user selection. The activity are start and exit as expected and onAcitivtyResult(..) also got invoked.
However, I found a problem with child activity, when the child activity was created the second time ( Main activity called startActivityForResult(...) upon some user event ), a new instance of child activity was created, but the displayed is the FIRST instance child activity! ( so any state in second instance of child activity was not accessible ). The onKey(...) was always go to first instance of child activity. Make things more interesting, the getInstanceCount () returns 3.
I have checked the code and no where holds the first instance of child activity which should be garbage collected after finish().
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I see log output from onSaveInstanceState, onResume, onCreate, etc, but I never see a log message from onRestoreInstanceState and savedState is always null. Why isn't onRestoreInstanceState being called, and is there another way to get my state back?
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CODE:........
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CODE:............
I am binding a Activity to the service with:
CODE:.......................
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we have onRestoreInstanceState and here we check whether dialog was shown, recreate the dialog with respective input.
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