Jupiter Broadcasting App

Ok so this is going to be my first post. I never really blogged before but I wanted a outlet for some of the cool and not so cool little projects that I do (mainly to do with software). Anyway, last Thursday I was watching Linux Action Show and TechSnap. Which are awesome by the way. I heard someone in the chatroom say that there was an iphone app but not an android app. I really think that is because you don't really need an android app with all the apps in the market place to stream content and to get rss feeds but I made this anyway because its annoying to keep hearing people say things like that and it will be a good educational piece of code for people starting off with android.

Lets get started, so first thing I did was decide to play the audio stream. So I created a media player object and set the data source to mp3 stream from jblive.am. Then I created a quick GUI, just a button using drag and drop with eclipse. Then I linked the button to a listener like this


play.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
if(!mp.isPlaying()){
         mp.setDataSource("http://64.150.176.9:8232");
mp.prepare();
         mp.start();
         play.setText("Pause");
}else{
mp.stop();
         play.setText("Play");
}

}
     
        });
    }

where play is the button Object. So I gave the chat room a link and was told they liked it but was asked if could I add ongoing app notifications. I went rummaging through the android docs to find out how to do this, turns out its not that hard. So I set the notifications on the on Pause listener like this


@Override protected void onPause() {
   super.onPause();
   {
  String ns = Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE;
NotificationManager mNotificationManager = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(ns);
  if(mp.isPlaying()){
Notification notification = new Notification(R.drawable.icon, "Jupiter Broadcasting",System.currentTimeMillis());

Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this, Home.class);
notificationIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);

PendingIntent intent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, notificationIntent, 0);
notification.setLatestEventInfo(getApplicationContext(),"Jupiter Broadcasting", "Playing Live Stream", intent);

notification.flags = Notification.FLAG_ONGOING_EVENT ;
mNotificationManager.notify(34,notification);
  }else{
      mNotificationManager.cancel(34);
      }
   }
    }


The "mNotificationManager.cancel(34);" is very important to stop the notification appearing unintentionally. By this stage we have a relatively functional radio app and I started thinking about new features that could be useful and I remembered I had some code for an RSS reader that I grabbed from someones blog and modified slightly so I added the feed for all shows so that people can download the latest episodes.

I'm just about finished but I'll probably update and add stuff to this over time but its pretty much done. I'd also like to point out that while most of the code is mine(The RSS reader part isn't I've been trying to find the blog I took it from however I have modified it to click into links) and feel free to use it whatever way you want. The images I don't know what sort of copy right there is about the images and if Chris or anyone else from jupiter broadcasting wants me to take this down or remove or modify it. I will without issue. Hope you enjoyed my first blog(Although it was probably boring as sin sorry :))

Here is the code and the apk
Source Code (Eclipse Project)
APK

Update its in the android market now : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jupiter.broadcasting.live.tv