MediaPlayer Service Android

Question

I am new to Android. I am creating service for Media Player so that it can continue to play song even if i close the application. I have created activity for Media Player an

Answer 1

I went through exactly the same thing! It's a long haul to develop even a really great mp3 player app. The answer is long.

Here are a few resources that really helped me. Android has a article on this very thing in their developer docs:

http://developer.android.com/guide/components/services.html

Pay attention to what it says at the bottom of this long article about bound services and running in the foreground.

Additionally, managing player state is what caused me the most headaches.

You'll also want to take a look at threading because spawning that new service will still execute everything on the Main UI Thread, sounds crazy but true. Take a look at the ExecutorService for managing thread pools. I wish I could tell you it was easier.

Unfortunately most of my formal training from all over the web but with android services comes from a paid site:

http://www.pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/android-services

It is a good resource for all programmers I think but has great sections about many aspects of android programming that are only covered briefly at other tutorial sites.

The resources at Vogella are good also, mentioned above.