title: Android, should I make MediaPlayer a service?
body: <p>I'm trying to write an Android application which will allow users to listen to a radio station.</p>
  
  <p>I have got the start and stop buttons to work and it plays the stream. If I press the home key and start doing other bits and pieces with the phone, the stream continues to play. This is how I want it to work.</p>
  
  <p>Should I bother creating a service to play the stream, or is the method I already use good enough?  What benefit would having it in a service bring?  A lot of tutorials and examples online seem to use services but it seems to me it's just adding extra complications into the code. Or is it more efficient?</p>
  
  <p>Regards,
  David</p>