Losing 'MediaPlayer' (& other Variables) when Device is Rotated

Question

I\'m creating a music player for Android and it\'s mostly working. The problem is that when I turn the device horizontally I lose all the variables from the Activity (which

Answer 1

For objects you couldn't pass via a bundle, I would suggest you to use the simple SharedPreference to store objects. Here you have a simple implementation:

public class Data {
     private SharedPreferences preferences; 
     private int test; 

     public Data (Context context)
     {          
        preferences = context.getSharedPreferences("Data", 0);
        test = preferences.getInt("test", 0);
     }

     public int getTest()
     {       
             return test;
     }

     public void setTest(int input)
     {       
        this.test = input;
        SharedPreferences.Editor editor = preferences.edit();
        editor.putInt("Test", input);
        editor.commit();
     }    
}

You have just to initialize the variable in the onCreate():

Data mydata = new Data(this);

And you can use set/get with mydata to store/retrieve your persistent data.

Edit: It is maybe not suitable for MediaPlayer objects, but for other classical types (int, string, boolean...).