Start an new Activity Intent with a parameter Android example

// button home presssed
19:37:06.727: INFO/ActivityManager(60): Starting: 
Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.HOME] 
flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.android.launcher/com.android.launcher2.Launcher } from pid 60

19:37:06.807: INFO/onSaveInstanceState(339): onSaveInstanceState()
19:37:06.848: INFO/onPause(339): onPause()
19:37:07.968: INFO/onStop(339): onStop()

MediaPlayer mp  = MediaPlayer.create(getApplicationContext(), R.raw.mymp3file);
mp.setLooping(true);
mp.start();

package com.asynctaskexample;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
	private TextView textView;
	private ProgressBar progressBar;
	private DownloadWebPageTask mTask = null;

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
		textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.TextView01);
		downloadPage();
	}

	// AsyncTask <TypeOfVarArgParams , ProgressValue , ResultValue> .
	private class DownloadWebPageTask extends AsyncTask<String, Integer, String> {

		@Override
		protected void onPreExecute() {
			//textView.setText("Hello !!!");
			progressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressBar1);
			progressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
			super.onPreExecute();
		}

		@Override
		protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... values) {
			super.onProgressUpdate(values);

		}

		@Override
		protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {
			String response = "";
			for (String url : urls) {
				DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
				HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
				try {
					HttpResponse execute = client.execute(httpGet);
					InputStream content = execute.getEntity().getContent();

					BufferedReader buffer = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
							content));
					String s = "";
					while ((s = buffer.readLine()) != null) {
						response += s;
					}

				} catch (Exception e) {
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}
			return response;
		}

		@Override
		protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
			progressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
			textView.setText(result);
		}
	}

	private void downloadPage() {
		if (mTask != null
				&& mTask.getStatus() != DownloadWebPageTask.Status.FINISHED) {
			mTask.cancel(true);
		}
               // execute(String[]) you can put array of links to web pages, or array of Integer[] 
               // if first param is Integer[] etc.
		mTask = (DownloadWebPageTask) new DownloadWebPageTask()
				.execute(new String[] { "//android.okhelp.cz/android-market.html",
						"//android.okhelp.cz/android-market.html" });
	}

	@Override
	protected void onDestroy() {
		super.onDestroy();

		if (mTask != null
				&& mTask.getStatus() != DownloadWebPageTask.Status.FINISHED) {
			mTask.cancel(true);
			mTask = null;
		}
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
		// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
		getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);
		return true;
	}

}

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="//schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/progressBar1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/TextView01"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello_world" />

</LinearLayout>

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

////www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
        private Paint mPaint = new Paint(Paint.ANTI_ALIAS_FLAG);
        private ColorMatrix mCM = new ColorMatrix();
        private Bitmap mBitmap;
        private float mSaturation;
        private float mAngle;
//..........
mBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),
                                                   R.drawable.my_image);
//..........
        private static void setContrastScaleOnly(ColorMatrix cm, float contrast) {
            float scale = contrast + 1.f;
               float translate = (-.5f * scale + .5f) * 255.f;
            cm.set(new float[] {
                   scale, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                   0, scale, 0, 0, 0,
                   0, 0, scale, 0, 0,
                   0, 0, 0, 1, 0 });
        }
       private static void setContrast(ColorMatrix cm, float contrast) {
            float scale = contrast + 1.f;
               float translate = (-.5f * scale + .5f) * 255.f;
            cm.set(new float[] {
                   scale, 0, 0, 0, translate,
                   0, scale, 0, 0, translate,
                   0, 0, scale, 0, translate,
                   0, 0, 0, 1, 0 });
        }
        
        private static void setContrastTranslateOnly(ColorMatrix cm, float contrast) {
            float scale = contrast + 1.f;
               float translate = (-.5f * scale + .5f) * 255.f;
            cm.set(new float[] {
                   1, 0, 0, 0, translate,
                   0, 1, 0, 0, translate,
                   0, 0, 1, 0, translate,
                   0, 0, 0, 1, 0 });
        }

       @Override protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
            Paint paint = mPaint;
            float x = 20;
            float y = 20;
            
            canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
            
            paint.setColorFilter(null);
            canvas.drawBitmap(mBitmap, x, y, paint);
            
            ColorMatrix cm = new ColorMatrix();
            
            mAngle += 2;
            if (mAngle > 180) {
                mAngle = 0;
            }
            
            //convert our animated angle [-180...180] to a contrast value of [-1..1]
            float contrast = mAngle / 180.f;
            
            setContrast(cm, contrast);
            paint.setColorFilter(new ColorMatrixColorFilter(cm));
            canvas.drawBitmap(mBitmap, x + mBitmap.getWidth() + 10, y, paint);
            
            setContrastScaleOnly(cm, contrast);
            paint.setColorFilter(new ColorMatrixColorFilter(cm));
            canvas.drawBitmap(mBitmap, x, y + mBitmap.getHeight() + 10, paint);
            
            setContrastTranslateOnly(cm, contrast);
            paint.setColorFilter(new ColorMatrixColorFilter(cm));
            canvas.drawBitmap(mBitmap, x, y + 2*(mBitmap.getHeight() + 10),
                              paint);
            
            invalidate();
        }
    }