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androidandroid-mediaplayerandroid-alarms
Shubham
Shubham

Reputation: 820

Is this the correct way to play repeating alarm tone?

I am making an Alarm app. I need to play user selected tone which I set through RingtoneManager. When an alarm goes off, this is how I play the alarm tone:

SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
Uri alarmSound = prefs.getString("alarmSound", ""); //alarmSound is the Uri of alarm tone
MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(NormalAlarm.this, alarmSound);
try 
{
    mp.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_ALARM);
    mp.setLooping(true);
    mp.start();
} 
catch (IllegalStateException e) 
{
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

It works fine but the volume which it uses is of course the Media Volume of the phone. How do I make it work with Alarm Volume of the phone ? I am using MediaPlayer since I want the alarm tone to repeat until the user stops the alarm.

Thanks for your help!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1373

Answers (2)

Maedeh HM
Maedeh HM

Reputation: 488

The issue is you are using MediaPlayer.create() to create your MediaPlayer. Create function calls the prepare() function which finalize your media and does not allow you to change AudioStreamType.

The solution is using setDataSource instead of create():

MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer();
mp.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_ALARM);
mp.setLooping(true);
try {
   mp.setDataSource(NormalAlarm.this, alarmSound);
   mp.prepare();
} catch (IOException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
}
mp.start();

See this link for more information.

Upvotes: 0

acj
acj

Reputation: 4821

MediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType() is what you're looking for:

mp.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_ALARM);
mp.setLooping(true);
mp.start();

Upvotes: 3

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