Homework 3

Background services

Start a service to play music in the background.

• The single activity of the application should have a button, pressing it will launch a background service (2 pts)
• The background service starts playing music when started ( 1 pts)
• Pressing the button again if the service is already playing music, the music should stop or pause. ( 1 pt)
• Use SharedPreferences to display a counter how many times the user has started playing music (1 pt)

Pressing the back button or home button should not stop the music!

To include a static file with your app, put it in your projects res/raw/<filename>, then you can open it with openRawResource(), passing the R.raw.<filename> resource ID