Question

I use a MediaPlayer to play an MP3. Currently I disabled screen orientation changes by using

android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"

in the manifest. I do want to support landscape mode now – i.e. removed those tags – but have the problem that during the destroy/create cycle the player gets stopped and then restarted. This is okay and I actually do this even manually in onPause() to stop the player when the activity goes in the background.

To keep it running during orientation changes now, I tried making it static (and using the Application Context to create it once). Of course, when I remove the player.stop() in onPause() now, it does what I want – well, until the Activity goes in the background.

So, two questions:

• How can I determine if the Activity will be recreated directly after the call to onStop()
• Or: How can I keep the MediaPlayer running during that cycle, yet stop it when the App goes in the background?

Answer 1

Have you looked at using the onConfigurationChanged() callback to handle some of this logic?