Change button text and action – android development

You can use setTag. So, your code will look like,

final Button testButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
testButton.setTag(1);
testButton.setText("Play");
testButton.setOnClickListener( new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick (View v) {
        final int status =(Integer) v.getTag();
        if(status == 1) {
            mPlayer.start();
            testButton.setText("Pause");
            v.setTag(0); //pause
        } else {
            testButton.setText("Play");
            v.setTag(1); //pause
        }
    }
});

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