Android Programming Tutorials 5 :Sound Effects in Android

Explanation:

In This Tutorial I am going to create a simple Bullet sound if you click on the screen any where u will listen the bullet fired sound and if you long click on the screen the then a Machine Gun Sound.

OutPut Of the Tutorial:

Create Android Application:

• File >> New >> Android Application
• Enter Project name: SoundStuffApp
• Package: com.ambilpursunil.newapp
• Keep other default selections, click Next until you reach Finish

      

2.Copy and past the following code in the MainAcivity.java

package com.ambilpursunil.newapp;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.media.AudioManager;

import android.media.MediaPlayer;

import android.media.SoundPool;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.view.View;

import android.view.View.OnClickListener;

import android.view.View.OnLongClickListener;

public class SoundStuff extends Activity implements OnClickListener,

                        OnLongClickListener {

                      SoundPool sp;

                      int explosion = 0;

                      MediaPlayer mp;

 // new explosion = 0 bcz when we play the sp.play explosion will take some

// time to load at the time we are getting erro to over come this we first

                     // initialized explosion to 0

            @Override

            protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

                        View v = new View(this);

                        v.setOnClickListener(this);

                        v.setOnLongClickListener(this);

                        setContentView(v);

                        sp = new SoundPool(5, AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, 0);

                        explosion = sp.load(this, R.raw.gunshot, 1);

                        mp = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.beep);

            }

            @Override

            public void onClick(View v) {

                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                        if (explosion != 0)

                        sp.play(explosion, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1);

                        /*

       * 1)once we run this application,we get the screen here we needt to

        * click on the screen to get been sound 2) Difference between SoundPool

       * and MediaPlayer is soundPool is small piece of sound which make

       * effective sound where as mediaplayer is used to play sound for long

                      * time

                         */

            }

            @Override

            public boolean onLongClick(View v) {

                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                        mp.start();

                        return false;

            }

}

Note: No need of activity_main.xml for this application instead of that we create a view object and placed it in setContextView(v).

2.Make the change the of  manifest.xml  file as the below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    package="com.ambilpursunil.newapp"

    android:versionCode="1"

    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk

        android:minSdkVersion="8"

        android:targetSdkVersion="17" />

    <application

        android:allowBackup="true" 

        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" 

        android:label="@string/app_name"

        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

    <activity 

       android:name="com.ambilpursunil.newapp.SoundStuff"

       android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation" >

   <intent-filter>

        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />

  </intent-filter>

       </activity>

  </application>

</manifest>

NOTE: Create a raw folder and place sounds like bullet.mp3 or other .mp3  files in raw folder

How to create raw folder just right click on the res folder and choose folder and name it as raw and place what ever you want but .mp3 only

4.Right click on the project and Run As-->Android Application 

OutPut Explanation:

Not Much to explain about this project output just click on the screen you will listen bullet sound and if you long click then machine gun sound.

Please Send Your Comments To ambilpura.sunil@gmail.com

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