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Asked: 2026-05-30T14:53:32+00:00

I guess I still need to learn how Android apps flow. The title might

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I guess I still need to learn how Android apps flow. The title might not have been clear, so let me explain.

Situation:
I have a game which has a few different activities. For example, MenuActivity, GameActivity, and HowToActivity. The game starts at MenuActivity and plays a song set to loop. To have the same song play during MenuActivity and HowToActivity, uniterrupted, I have the song played from an implemented Application. If I press the home button, get a phone, or whatever, the song will continue to play. To prevent that, I need to stop the song when leaving the app.

Problem:
Currently, in MenuActivity, I have code to stop the song under the protected void onStop() function. This stops the song when leaving the app (Pressing the Home button, get a phone call), but it also stops the song when changing to another activity within the app, such as HowToActivity. So the question is, how can I tell the difference?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Jesse,
    You need to have a service that will do the job of playing the song.
    You can easily start the service from any of the activity of your application. Also the service can be stopped by any of the activity.
    Hence in the activity onCreate(), you can start the song player service, that will play the song even if the activity dies and new activity starts. Once your application is done with the song playing, just call stopService().
    I hope this will solve your issue.

    ~Rajan

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