Android- listview, service mediaplayer, and boolean flags

Question

I currently have a listview and when you click on an item it runs a service with a mediaplayer. If I click on another item in the

Answer 1

This gets pretty complicated but I used the following to see if my service was running:

private boolean isMyServiceRunning() {
ActivityManager manager = (ActivityManager) getSystemService(ACTIVITY_SERVICE);
for (RunningServiceInfo service : manager.getRunningServices(Integer.MAX_VALUE)) {
    if ("com.example.MyService".equals(service.service.getClassName())) {
        return true;
    }
}
return false;
}

I added this in my listview class and put if statements in each case to see if it was running and if so would stop the service.

I also made my all of my binding conenctions public so that the listview class could access them and start them on click.

If anyone wants to further understand, etc message me.

Answer 2

let your app track the state, not your service.