How do I access Android's default beep sound?
Solution 1:
... use the default android beep sound (like when you adjust the ringer volume) ...
On my Cyanogen 7 Nexus One and my old stock T-Mobile Pulse Mini (the latter from memory), as far as I can hear, this is is exactly the default beep sound on volume change:
final ToneGenerator tg = new ToneGenerator(AudioManager.STREAM_NOTIFICATION, 100);
tg.startTone(ToneGenerator.TONE_PROP_BEEP);
You seem to be asking for an alternative to ToneGenerator
, but I think it gives you exactly what you want in two lines.
Here are some other likely ToneGenerator
sounds I tried that were not a match (the first two might be useful as alternates to the volume beep):
// Double beeps: tg.startTone(ToneGenerator.TONE_PROP_ACK);
// Double beeps: tg.startTone(ToneGenerator.TONE_PROP_BEEP2);
// Sounds all wrong: tg.startTone(ToneGenerator.TONE_CDMA_KEYPAD_VOLUME_KEY_LITE);
Solution 2:
public void playSound(Context context) throws IllegalArgumentException,
SecurityException,
IllegalStateException,
IOException {
Uri soundUri = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
MediaPlayer mMediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(context, soundUri);
final AudioManager audioManager = (AudioManager) context.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
if (audioManager.getStreamVolume(AudioManager.STREAM_ALARM) != 0) {
mMediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_ALARM);
// Uncomment the following line if you aim to play it repeatedly
// mMediaPlayer.setLooping(true);
mMediaPlayer.prepare();
mMediaPlayer.start();
}
}
I found another answer:
try {
Uri notification = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
Ringtone r = RingtoneManager.getRingtone(getApplicationContext(), notification);
r.play();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
credit goes to https://stackoverflow.com/a/9622040/737925
Solution 3:
You can access Android's default beeb sound via ToneGenerator class.
import android.media.AudioManager;
import android.media.ToneGenerator;
ToneGenerator toneGenerator = new ToneGenerator(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, 200);
toneGenerator.startTone(ToneGenerator.TONE_CDMA_EMERGENCY_RINGBACK);
More info on how they sound: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/ToneGenerator and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVu7K9W1_BM