CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Farid Movsumov
Farid Movsumov

Reputation: 12735

App was closed but music keeps playing

I write an app for android and there is a music plays in background. When I close application music keeps playing. What is the reason? Why everything belong to app don't close automatically? Should I stop everything manually?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5739

Answers (5)

Sankha Rathnayake
Sankha Rathnayake

Reputation: 843

This code worked for me!

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
MediaPlayer mediaPlayer;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);        
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.beep_warning);
    final CheckBox checkBox = (CheckBox) findViewById(R.id.checkBox);
    checkBox.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            if (checkBox.isChecked()) {
                mediaPlayer.start();
                mediaPlayer.setLooping(true);
            }
            else{
                mediaPlayer.pause();
            }
            }


    });

}
@Override
protected void onStop() {
    super.onStop();
    mediaPlayer.release();
}

Upvotes: 0

broody
broody

Reputation: 707

Yes, you have to stop it manually. Are you using MediaPlayer? I think the API docs indicate you'll need to release the player once you're finish with it. So in your onDestroy do a music.release();

Upvotes: 1

castle1971
castle1971

Reputation: 517

I think this funny post by Tim Bray from the Android Developers blog explains clearly when you should stop music and when (and how) you should resume it.

Upvotes: 2

Rasman
Rasman

Reputation: 5359

Playing media can be tricky, and depends a lot on how you set things up. You should really read the documentation found here and here. I don't know how you set up your app so I can't give you specifics, but I suspect you're running it through a service ("in the background") in which case it is somewhat autonomous from the Activity and needs to be managed when you leave the app.

Upvotes: 1

Squonk
Squonk

Reputation: 48871

Please read Application Fundamentals to understand that an Android 'app' can be made up of many different parts. An Activity, for example, is NOT the complete app and when you leave that Activity to go back to the Home page on your Android device, you are not closing the app.

In answer to your question...

Should I stop everything manually?

No, normally you would let the OS tidy things up but in the case of your music playing then yes, you should stop whatever you have started to play the music.

Upvotes: 2

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