Question

I wan’t my mediaPlayer to continue playing when the user opens a new Intent to access a menue.

I thought this could be handeled like this:

• Pause the Player
• Put player into the extra bundle
• Pass bundle to new menueIntent
• Let menueIntent call player.start()

But even if this will work, I guess it will suffer from lags.
Is there any way to continue playing background sound when the current intent is paused?

Answer 1

Why bother so much when you have a thing called Service? Just create a Service, put your playing code inside it and communicate with the Service from any Activity you want. You can read more about Services here. Hope this helps.