Media Player start stop start

Question

I am making a new android sound application. I made a clickable button to play sound when I click on it. But I also want it to stop playing sound when I click for the second

Answer 1

I know that this question is quite old but recently while learning Android, I also got stuck at this point and found a very simple solution which I'd like to share with everyone.

Instead of trying to stop or reset the media, you can just seek back to the starting position.

mediaPlayer.seekTo(0);

For reference, I am also posting my code below:

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    MediaPlayer mp;

    public void play(View view) {
        mp.start();
    }

    public void pause(View view) {
        mp.pause();
    }

    public void stop(View view) {
        // this seeks to the beginning of the file
        mp.seekTo(0);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        mp = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.sample_audio);
    }
}