Can anyone tell me how to stop media player that was started in a previous activity?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.
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How to finish any previous activity in application stack (at any level , I mean not immediate parent) , from current activity like on some particular event I want to invalidate this previous activity?
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View 15 Replies View RelatedI develop a music play app, whe app framework is:
list.java->play.java
eg: in the list.java there have two mp3 files : 1.mp3,2.mp3 when first time choose 1.mp3, then play ok, then back to list.java from play.java, and now the 1.mp3 is still playing, and then i click 2.mp3 in the list.java, and go to play.java, but it play 1.mp3 and 2.mp3 simultaneously? but i have used the mediaplayer.stop(); mediaplayer.release(); and it always play 1.mp3 and 2.mp3 simultaneously? i want stop 1.mp3 and play 2.mp3.
My android app creates a MediaPlayer() and plays a looping song. I need to have it stop playing when the user leaves the app. I also need to get at the volume buttons somehow, to let users adjust the songs volume...
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I'm playing around with the MediaPlayer class to reproduce some sounds/music. I am playing raw resources (res/raw) and it looks kind of easy.
To play a raw resource, the MediaPlayer has to be initialized like this:
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Until here there is no problem. The sound is played, and everything works fine. My problem appears when I want to add more options to my application. Specifically when I add the "Stop" button/option.
Basically, what I want to do is...when I press "Stop", the music stops. And when I press "Start", the song/sound starts over. (pretty basic!)
To stop the media player, you only have to call stop(). But to play the sound again, the media player has to be reseted and prepared.
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The problem is that the method setDataSource() only accepts as params a file path, Content Provider URI, streaming media URL path, or File Descriptor.
So, since this method doesn't accept a resource identifier, I don't know how to set the data source in order to call prepare(). In addition, I don't understand why you can't use a Resouce identifier to set the data source, but you can use a resource identifier when initializing the MediaPlayer.
I guess that I'm missing something. I wonder if I am mixing concepts, and the method stop() doesn't have to be called in the "Stop" button.
I see calling the stop function of MediaPlayer simply does nothing. The playback goes on.
I looked in the documentation and I found: "Stops playback after playback has been stopped or paused."
So, I tried to pause() it before stopping, but the MediaPlayer then pauses and resumes the playback. The only thing I can see is that the buffering stops. But the playback continues. Is this the expected behavior? Could the problem be related to the fact that I call the methods of the MediaPlayer object from different threads than the creator by synchronizing with Semaphores?
I have a activity which is called from another activity as an intent... This activity loads and starts playing a audio file. All is good - that much works. The activity also has a "stop" button and that stops the audio from playing - that is also fine.
But how do I stop the file from playing if the user uses the back button to leave the activity without clicking on the "Stop" button?
This is an intermittent bug in one of my apps. I don't expect anyone to solve it immediately, but I'd appreciate any thoughts on how to start debugging!So, my app lets users edit an item (in the EditPage activity). When they press the Back key, the desired behaviour is that it saves their edits and returns them to the home page (the HomeList activity). The code for this is below. It works fine. Except.The bug is this. Some users report that sometimes when they reopen the application after a pause, they are seeing *not* the home page, where they left the application - but the previous edit activity. Crucially, they are also seeing the edit activity without their saved edits - effectively losing their most recent edits.I've been able to reproduce this myself. It only happens after the application hasn't been opened for a while. If I save something, minimize the application and reopen it straight away, it shows the HomeList activity just fine, and the edits have all been saved. But if I save something, leave it for a couple of hours and then reopen it, it shows the previous EditPage activity, without the saved edits (i.e. in the state that the EditPage activity was previously launched).
Any ideas, anyone? I had wondered whether it was due to the Back button being used to return the user to the HomeList activity - maybe Android thinks that the Back button means that the HomeList is not the most "recent" activity, instead the EditPage is. I'd like to carry on using the Back button if possible, though. And in particular, I'm puzzled why it only happens after the app has been idle for an hour or so, and not immediately? Is it something to do with Android's memory management?
I need a way to detect if this is the first time the user is ever opening the application, if so, start an activity. Then all previous application launches wouldn't start that activity. I've read in a few places about using preferences to accomplish this. Anyone got any ideas?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedCan any one tell me how to pass the value from one screen to its previous screen. Consider the case.i m having two screen first screen with one Textview and button and the second activity have one edittext and button. If i click the first button then it has to move to second activity and here user has to type something in the textbox. If he press the button from the second screen then the values from the textbox should move to the first activity and that should be displayed in the first activity textview.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have two activities. The first is a list where the user selects one of the items which takes them to a second activity showing the details of the item they selected. When the user clicks the back button I want the app to return to the first activity.
Is there anything special i need to do to make this happen?
Right now when I click the back button from the second activity it exits the app just like the home button would.
Here is how I am starting the Second Activity. startActivity(new Intent(getApplication(), SecondActivity.class)); finish();
I'm writing a bitmap editor and I'm trying to write an autosave feature. When onPause is called, I write the application state to an autosave file. As this takes between 0.1s and 1.5s, I've been advised this IO operation be performed in a background thread.
In the onCreate method of my activity, I check to see if the autosave file exists and, if it does, I open it.
Are there any scenarios I have to consider where the user can somehow leave the activity, the autosave thread starts and the user can return to the activity before the thread has finished? If so, how can I detect this and wait for the thread to finish before I check the state of the autosave file?
I was going to make it that, when the user backs out of my activity, they're asked to wait a second while the data is saved. This seems OK, but I can't do this when my activity is interrupted by something like a phone call.
Also, I'm a bit confused about how multiple versions of the same activity can be started as this makes dealing with autosaving more complex. Is there a way to make sure only one instance of my activity is allowed to run at a time?
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI am using an Application object to store app-wide instance data--data that I need to remain in existence for the entire lifetime of the app, so the Application class seems like the proper place to put it. I have just finished reading this thread http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/threa... that goes into pretty good detail and receives confirmation from Googler hackbod as to how the Application class performs--and from that info it seems this strange behavior I am receiving should not be happening...
Basically, every once in a while when I resume my app in any of its Activities (it is still running in memory so onCreate is not called) I get NullPointerExceptions because instance variables in my Application class are returning null when I request them from my Activity (via a getter method in my custom Application class). It seems as if sometimes Android saves the states of my Activities but deletes all my instance variable data... This can't be an Android problem--there must be something wrong with my code.
Has anyone else ever ran into an issue of this kind? Any ideas as to what may be causing this? I'm not going to post my code here as that won't help anyone, but hopefully someone can point me in some helpful directions.
I'm writing an application consisting of several activities and, on restarts, I'd like the application to initially display the application's activity that was the last to display in the application's previous session.
I save information about the last activity in SharedPreferences and I'm trying to start that last activity with a call to startActivity(intent) from my Application's onCreate handler.
The problem is that if I don't set the intent's FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK, the result is a run-time exception message in logcat suggesting that I should set the flag. And if I set that intent flag, the correct activity gets started but doesn't fully initialize resulting in null pointer exceptions (which don't occur when I don't attempt to start the activity from my Application class).
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Calling startActivity() from outside of an Activity context requires the FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK flag. Is this really what you want?
How to correctly start a particular activity from the Application class's onCreate handler?
I'm using a mediaplayer to play a sound file, when you leave the application the sound continues in the background, which is the desired behaviour.
However, when the app is resumed, the mediaplayer isn't retrieved, so hitting pause just starts a new player so now there are two sounds playing.
Is the mediaplayer a type of service? How can I access the original player again?
When i leave my app after pressing home button and then re launch it from menus it behaves in a strange way.Sometimes it launches the same activity on which i pressed home button.But sometimes it launches the first activity of my app. One reason for this could be that whenever system has memory shortage it clears any activities existing in But the strange thing is if i press back button from first activity it takes me back to the same activity on which i pressed home button and all other previous activities are also there(like if i press back button again previous activities also exist.)I haven't set any launching mode for any activity in my app(like single instance etc).What i don't need is that previous activities load on pressing back button on first activity.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an android application with a LOT of activities, think of something like a book where every page is a new activity. The user can make changes in each activity, for example highlight certain texts with different colored markers etc. and it's crucial that I'll remember this information as long as the application stays alive (and I don't want/need to remember any of this when it's not). As I understand the best mechanism for storing this kind of information is via onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) and onCreate(Bundle)/onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle) rather than lets say, the Preferences mechanism. My only problem is that the user can navigate backwards to previous pages (Activities) and the only way i know of achieving this is by calling finish() which of course kills the current activity without calling onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) and even if it did call it, the next time I would launch an activity representing that page it would be an entirely new instance. So my question is: Is there a way to go back to the previous activity without calling finish()? or, is there a better way to save this information? maybe through static variables?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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...?
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I had a prob with app i.e when i am moving to the previous window the control goes to the splash screen of my app because the previous activity is killed by android runtime. how to make the previous activity alive. or how to create activity again and how to access it from present activity.
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