On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Baratong<pwalter...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've found the audio subsystem is a little quirky. It's great if you > are playing songs, or video but if you are writing a game that plays > short sounds quickly it poses problems. After much work I found a > pretty cool solution to one of the annoying problems of MediaPlayer > being sluggish to play audio. > > The problem is the audio system tends to go to sleep after 3 seconds. > When my application tries to play the next sound the phone's audio > system wakes up but seems to queue the sound instead of playing it. > When my application plays yet another sound -- as long as the sound > system hasn't gone back to sleep again -- it plays BOTH sounds at > once! This causes unacceptable behavior for any game. > > What I ended up doing was this: > 1. Use Audacity to create a 1-second .wav of total silence and add the > wave into my manifest as a raw resource referenced in the app as > R.raw.silence. > 2. On startup, create a MediaPlayer instance, load the R.raw.silence > resource and play in a loop constantly. > > This worked great at keeping the audio system awake, however the phone > was now draining the battery quickly whenever the game was loaded. > Since Android (and most phones) don't have a great way for the user to > terminate a task, this meant if you played the game for a couple of > minutes in the morning, the battery would drain at an accelerated rate > for the rest of the day! A bit unacceptable.
Indeed. It is unacceptable for an application to not clean up after itself. Why did you not simply stop the sound in your application's onPause() ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
