FFT visualization

For the next visualization, we'll introduce the use of FFT data (instead of waveform data). As in the previous example, we'll dynamically generate a texture from the data and write a material and shaders to render it.

Capture the FFT audio data

To begin with, we need to add that data capture to our VisualizerBox class. We will start by adding the variables we'll need:

    public static byte[] fftBytes, fftNorm;
    public static float[] fftPrep;
    public static int fftTexture = -1;

We need to allocate the FFT data arrays, and to do that we need to know their size. We can ask the Android Visualizer API how much data it's capable of giving us. For now, we'll choose the minimum size and then allocate the arrays as follows:

    public VisualizerBox(final CardboardView cardboardView){
        . . .
        fftPrep = new float[captureSize / 2];
        fftNorm = new byte[captureSize / 2];
        ...

Capturing FFT data is similar to capturing waveform data...