Few days ago i tried to make my Android app can play music from URL.

The Android API give to us a very useful class. Here i want show you how to make  the streaming m3 mediaplayer using MediaPlayer class from Android API. This app use Android 2.2.

Below you can see the UI of this app. It’s very simple.

Android Streaming mp3 player's screenshot

Here i show you only Activity file (StreamingMp3Player.java). If you want to see some other file from this Android project, please download the SOURCE.


package com.hrupin.streamingmedia;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.media.MediaPlayer.OnBufferingUpdateListener;
import android.media.MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.view.View.OnTouchListener;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.ImageButton;
import android.widget.SeekBar;

import com.hrupin.media.R;

public class StreamingMp3Player extends Activity implements OnClickListener, OnTouchListener, OnCompletionListener, OnBufferingUpdateListener{

	private ImageButton buttonPlayPause;
	private SeekBar seekBarProgress;
	public EditText editTextSongURL;

	private MediaPlayer mediaPlayer;
	private int mediaFileLengthInMilliseconds; // this value contains the song duration in milliseconds. Look at getDuration() method in MediaPlayer class

	private final Handler handler = new Handler();

	/** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        initView();
    }

    /** This method initialise all the views in project*/
    private void initView() {
		buttonPlayPause = (ImageButton)findViewById(R.id.ButtonTestPlayPause);
		buttonPlayPause.setOnClickListener(this);

		seekBarProgress = (SeekBar)findViewById(R.id.SeekBarTestPlay);
		seekBarProgress.setMax(99); // It means 100% .0-99
		seekBarProgress.setOnTouchListener(this);
		editTextSongURL = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.EditTextSongURL);
		editTextSongURL.setText(R.string.testsong_20_sec);

		mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
		mediaPlayer.setOnBufferingUpdateListener(this);
		mediaPlayer.setOnCompletionListener(this);
	}

	/** Method which updates the SeekBar primary progress by current song playing position*/
    private void primarySeekBarProgressUpdater() {
    	seekBarProgress.setProgress((int)(((float)mediaPlayer.getCurrentPosition()/mediaFileLengthInMilliseconds)*100)); // This math construction give a percentage of "was playing"/"song length"
		if (mediaPlayer.isPlaying()) {
			Runnable notification = new Runnable() {
		        public void run() {
		        	primarySeekBarProgressUpdater();
				}
		    };
		    handler.postDelayed(notification,1000);
    	}
    }

	@Override
	public void onClick(View v) {
		if(v.getId() == R.id.ButtonTestPlayPause){
			 /** ImageButton onClick event handler. Method which start/pause mediaplayer playing */
			try {
				mediaPlayer.setDataSource(editTextSongURL.getText().toString()); // setup song from http://www.hrupin.com/wp-content/uploads/mp3/testsong_20_sec.mp3 URL to mediaplayer data source
				mediaPlayer.prepare(); // you must call this method after setup the datasource in setDataSource method. After calling prepare() the instance of MediaPlayer starts load data from URL to internal buffer.
			} catch (Exception e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			}

			mediaFileLengthInMilliseconds = mediaPlayer.getDuration(); // gets the song length in milliseconds from URL

			if(!mediaPlayer.isPlaying()){
				mediaPlayer.start();
				buttonPlayPause.setImageResource(R.drawable.button_pause);
			}else {
				mediaPlayer.pause();
				buttonPlayPause.setImageResource(R.drawable.button_play);
			}

			primarySeekBarProgressUpdater();
		}
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
		if(v.getId() == R.id.SeekBarTestPlay){
			/** Seekbar onTouch event handler. Method which seeks MediaPlayer to seekBar primary progress position*/
			if(mediaPlayer.isPlaying()){
		    	SeekBar sb = (SeekBar)v;
				int playPositionInMillisecconds = (mediaFileLengthInMilliseconds / 100) * sb.getProgress();
				mediaPlayer.seekTo(playPositionInMillisecconds);
			}
		}
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
		 /** MediaPlayer onCompletion event handler. Method which calls then song playing is complete*/
		buttonPlayPause.setImageResource(R.drawable.button_play);
	}

	@Override
	public void onBufferingUpdate(MediaPlayer mp, int percent) {
		/** Method which updates the SeekBar secondary progress by current song loading from URL position*/
		seekBarProgress.setSecondaryProgress(percent);
	}
}

I hope it will be useful for you.