I part 3 of the MusicDroid tutorial we create a simple controls interface that will be launched by our playlist when you play a song. The controls interface is a translucent Activity that simply has 4 images, one for each direction on the D-Pad. When you hit a direction on the pad it will send a command to the service and play a small animation.
This tutorial utilizes the work done in parts 1 and 2, though you do not have to be familiar with those parts if you just want some examples of animation or transparency.
In part 2 of the MusicDroid media player tutorial series, we will move the MediaPlayer object into a remote service so that you can use the rest of the phone while playing your music. We will setup this service so that it will be simple to add the controls in part 3 for Pause, Stop, Skip forward, Skip back, etc. This service will also provide a marquee notification each time a new song starts, and a notification icon for play/pause status.
In part 1 of this 4 part series, we will setup a very basic music player that will list all songs on the SD card and allow the user to select a song to play. Over the course of this series we will build a fully functional MP3 player with animated controls and IDE3 tag support.
In Hello Android's first tutorial we will walk through creating a simple RSS reader. This tutorial will show you how to parse XML files and use the SQLiteDatabase for storage.
