Background Services in Mono for Android: Listing 4

The MusicActivity class.

• By Greg Shackles
• 07/10/2012

 [Activity(Label = "Music Player", MainLauncher = true)]
    public class MusicActivity : Activity
    {
        protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
        {
            base.OnCreate(bundle);

            SetContentView(Resource.Layout.Main);

            var playButton = FindViewById<Button>(Resource.Id.Play);
            var stopButton = FindViewById<Button>(Resource.Id.Stop);

            playButton.Click += delegate
            {
                var intent = new Intent(this, typeof (MusicService));
                intent.PutExtra(MusicService.CommandExtraName, MusicService.PlayCommand);

                StartService(intent);
            };

            stopButton.Click += delegate
            {
                var intent = new Intent(this, typeof(MusicService));
                intent.PutExtra(MusicService.CommandExtraName, MusicService.StopCommand);

                StartService(intent);
            };
        }
    }