Android Stop Background Music

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I have encountered the same problem with my development proccess.

I solved this by using onPause and onResume and with pause() and start() methods in the player which I saved on my main container, calling fragments instead of activities.

I kept a flag on a singleton in order to know when the music was turned off by the user.

Another problem I found is that my app (idk if it's part of the android build or not) was running the onResume method right before he got the player back on, so I ran a while loop in order to receive the player not as a null pointer, and it works because it runs on a different thread, therefore enabling the app to run the onResume without crashing and the music alongside it.

I find it better (smaller code to write) and non-permission invasive ;).