MediaPlayer

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.