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

Another way would be to :

In your AndroidManifest.xml, find your entry for your activity and add the following attribute and value:

android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"

This will stop your activity from being destroyed and recreated on orientation.