I have been porting my music production app to Android, and some features CAN NOT BE IMPLEMENTED without lower latency, period. This includes any feature where a dynamic sound is to be generated by user interaction. Some people have said "well, there is this piano-application that has low latency", but those apps are not generating a continuous stream of audio, dynamically... So I can't do what they do.. We need to have audio stream objects with short buffers, basically.. It feels sad when I know what I could do if someone just got their a** out of bed one day!
There seem to be people who have patched Android to get low latency, like this: http://arunraghavan.net/2012/01/pulseaudio-vs-audioflinger-fight/ With pulse audio we are talking almost ten times faster latency than stock Android AudioFlinger! And the work is open source! I sure wish Google would just lift that and make the AudioFlinger wrapper as suggested! Or just fix AudioFlinger, if they wanna invent the wheel again... I don't care about how they do it, JUST DO IT already! /Anton On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:44 PM, RLScott <[email protected]> wrote: > Could you please summarize the current state of audio latency and > which applications are hurt by the current latency? > > On Dec 11, 5:48 pm, Bh1 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Recently there have been discussion on the andraudio list about the > > perplexing lack of progress for low latency audio on the android > > platform over the past three years. > > > > We have kicked around a few possible options like reworking and > > testing the stack on CM7/9, modifying TinyALSA to allow an API for low > > latency, adding JACK support or lobbying the developers of the > > existing audio stack to sort this problem out. Others have suggested > > that the real solution is to fix AudioFlinger and AudioHAL layers and > > get that merged upstream. > > > > However the real question is after three years of constant development > > why has audio latency got worse across the board instead of better? Is > > it even worth anyones time to try to get something better in place as > > there appears to be an agenda to make sure that android is not > > suitable for pro audio requirements. > > > > Without any information from the people who are responsible for the > > current state of the audio stack we are all just guessing as to how we > > can fix this problem or if it is even possible or desired by the > > Google team. > > > > -- > > Patrick Shirkey > > Boost Hardware Ltd > > -- > 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 > -- 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
