Tag: sound
Creating Sound Effects in Android: Part 1
by Stephen Flockton on Oct.20, 2009, under how to, tutorial
In today’s tutorial I am going to show you my method of creating, managing and using sound effects in Android. In this first part I’ll show you the basic method of encapsulating your sound management code. This method works best when you have a typical application, or simple game all in one thread.Part 2 will show you a more advanced way to manage your sound across multiple classes.
The method I use to play sounds is to use the Sound Pool classes rather then the Media Player classes that the Android dev-guide seems to suggest. While there is nothing wrong with using the Media Player classes for simple applications they did not provide the flexibility I needed.
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