Playing BG Music Across Activities in Android

Question

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We\'re developing an Android game and we play some background music for our intro

Answer 1

If I understand your situation correctly, then I have confronted the same problem a few times. I am using a different thread to play music in my applications. This implementation passes a static reference to a Context that I know will be alive for the time that the music will be playing.

public class AudioPlayer extends Thread {
private Context c;
private Thread blinker;
private File file;

public AudioPlayer (Context c, File file) {
    this.c = c;
    this.file = file;
}

public void go () {
    blinker = this;
    if(!blinker.isAlive()) {
        blinker.start();
    }
}

public void end () {
    Thread waiter = blinker;
    blinker = null;
    if (waiter != null)
        waiter.interrupt ();
}

public void run () {
    MediaPlayer ap = MediaPlayer.create(c, Uri.fromFile(file));
    int duration = ap.getDuration();
    long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
    ap.start();
    try {
        Thread thisThread = Thread.currentThread();
        while (this.blinker == thisThread && System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime < duration) {           
            Thread.sleep (500);  // interval between checks (in ms)
        }
        ap.stop ();
        ap.release ();
        ap = null;
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        Log.d("AUDIO-PLAYER", "INTERRUPTED EXCEPTION");
        ap.stop ();
        ap.release();
        ap = null;
    }
    }
}