Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

Playing audio with MediaPlayer

MediaPlayer is probably one of the most important classes for adding multimedia capability to your applications. It supports the following media sources:

• Project resources
• Local files
• External resources (such as URLs, including streaming)

MediaPlayer supports the following popular audio files:

• 3GPP (.3gp)
• 3GPP (.3gp)
• FLAC (.flac)
• MP3 (.mp3)
• MIDI Type 0 and 1 (.mid, .xmf, and .mxmf)
• Ogg (.ogg)
• WAVE (.wav)

And it supports these popular file types:

• 3GPP (.3gp)
• Matroska (.mkv)
• WebM (.webm)
• MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4a)

See the Supported Media Formats link for a complete list, including network protocols.

This recipe will demonstrate how to set up MediaPlayer in your app to play a sound included with your project. (For ...