On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Robert Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's very unfortunate. iPhone has one up on the android in this > arena.
There are two separate questions here, I think. One is about improved audio support. The other is about whether that support will come in the form of an implementation of the javax sampled sound API. We are absolutely committed to improving audio support. There already are Android-specific classes and methods for a lot of audio-related functionality, but we know full well that there is much more that could be done. You can safely expect to see us continue to improve the Android-specific API. We did have a go at implementing javax.sound for 1.0, but effectively due to time constraints, we were not able to bring that code up to production quality. So, rather than ship an "attractive nuisance" that would have caused developers pain, agony, and suffering, we decided instead that the platform API would be better off without it, for now. There is nothing that you could have done using the javax API, as implemented, that you couldn't have also done using the Android-specific API; the difference is more that porting pre-existing code would have been easier if the more standard API were in place (and if it worked as expected). You can find the javax.sound code, as it currently exists, in the open source tree at </platform/dalvik/libcore-disabled/>. When Dianne said... > Contributing patches would be a much more effective approach than a petition. ...the specific patches she presumably meant would be patches to make this as-yet incomplete code into a stable, usable, library. -dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
