[android-developers] Re: MediaPlayer in 0.9?

2008-09-02 Thread blindfold
With SDK 0.9 beta, MediaPlayer plays from the application's data area, provided that proper paths are used (the Android conventions appear here a bit inconsistent concerning when to include the full path, and when one must use only the filename). I use this all the time and it works just fine,

[android-developers] Re: MediaPlayer in 0.9?

2008-09-02 Thread David Given
blindfold wrote: [...] openFileOutput(myfile.wav, Context.MODE_WORLD_READABLE | Context.MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE); Play using MediaPlayer with setDataSource(/data/data/mypackage/files/myfile.wav); I bet the problem (or possibly feature) is that MediaPlayer doesn't run with app privileges,

[android-developers] Re: MediaPlayer in 0.9?

2008-09-01 Thread David Given
Steve Oldmeadow wrote: Where are you storing the file? There is a change with the MediaPlayer where it can't open files in the application's data area for security reasons. Yes --- that was the problem. I now have it all working. Wonderful! Thanks! (Oddly enough, though, I'm still seeing an

[android-developers] Re: MediaPlayer in 0.9?

2008-08-31 Thread Joa
I'm afraid I cannot give you direct answer, but one pointer I can give you that you might want to check out is control of handset functions through manifest permissions. http://code.google.com/android/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html I am mostly involved in LBS apps using MapView. Had

[android-developers] Re: MediaPlayer in 0.9?

2008-08-31 Thread Joa
Here's one more link which describes permissions On Aug 31, 5:21 am, David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email

[android-developers] Re: MediaPlayer in 0.9?

2008-08-31 Thread David Given
Joa wrote: Here's one more link which describes permissions No, there isn't! Did you mean to include something? I've had a look at the permissions, but don't see anything obvious --- the only two audio-related permissions appear to be MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS and RECORD_AUDIO, neither of which

[android-developers] Re: MediaPlayer in 0.9?

2008-08-31 Thread Steve Oldmeadow
Where are you storing the file? There is a change with the MediaPlayer where it can't open files in the application's data area for security reasons. The application must open the file and use a FileDescriptor version of setSource. Not sure if this is your problem but thought I'd mention it