Losing 'MediaPlayer' (& other Variables) when Device is Rotated

Question

I\'m creating a music player for Android and it\'s mostly working. The problem is that when I turn the device horizontally I lose all the variables from the Activity (which

Answer 1

You should use a Service to Provides "background" audio playback capabilities, allowing the user to switch between activities or Rotate device without stopping playback.

Check out android_packages_apps_Music which is opensource by CM on github , It use MediaPlaybackService extends Service to do this , checkout MediaPlaybackService.java