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 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 a complete review of the full capability offered by MediaPlayer, see the Developer Docs link at the end of this recipe.)
Getting ready
Create a new project in Android Studio and call it: MediaPlayer. Use the default Phone & Tablet options and select Empty Activity when prompted for Activity...
