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[Q] Playing new sound on each click

I've run into a little trouble and I'm wondering if someone can help me out.
I have a button with several sound effects that go with it. I'm wanting to play a different sound each time the button is pressed, but I just can't get things to work out. Can someone show me the way? Any help would be huge. This is the only thing keeping me from finishing. Here's a little code:
Code:
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
public class Main extends Activity {
private SoundManager mSoundManager;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
mSoundManager = new SoundManager();
mSoundManager.initSounds(getBaseContext());
mSoundManager.addSound(1, R.raw.finn_whatthejugisthat);
mSoundManager.addSound(2, R.raw.finn_wordtoyourmother);
Button SoundButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.Button1);
SoundButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
mSoundManager.playSound(1);
mSoundManager.playSound(2);
}
});
}
}

If you want to play a different sound with each click, then you'll have to keep a global counter variable or global string that you change to the next audio file name with each click of the button--sort of a circular buffer. The code you have there tries to play both sounds on the same click and likely mixes them together at the same time if "playSound()" is asynchronous, but I don't know what the SoundManager class is so I have no idea.

Gene Poole said:
If you want to play a different sound with each click, then you'll have to keep a global counter variable or global string that you change to the next audio file name with each click of the button--sort of a circular buffer. The code you have there tries to play both sounds on the same click and likely mixes them together at the same time if "playSound()" is asynchronous, but I don't know what the SoundManager class is so I have no idea.
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Okay, so I understand what you mean, but I don't know how to say that in Java. Could you give a short example? As for SoundManager, it's really a useless class I have that I was using to play my media. You can take a look here:
Code:
package com.andrew.finnandjake;
import java.util.HashMap;
import android.content.Context;
import android.media.AudioManager;
import android.media.SoundPool;
public class SoundManager {
private SoundPool mSoundPool;
private HashMap<Integer, Integer> mSoundPoolMap;
private AudioManager mAudioManager;
private Context mContext;
public SoundManager()
{
}
public void initSounds(Context theContext) {
mContext = theContext;
mSoundPool = new SoundPool(4, AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, 0);
mSoundPoolMap = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();
mAudioManager = (AudioManager)mContext.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
}
public void addSound(int Index,int SoundID)
{
mSoundPoolMap.put(1, mSoundPool.load(mContext, SoundID, 1));
}
public void playSound(int index) {
int streamVolume = mAudioManager.getStreamVolume(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
mSoundPool.play(mSoundPoolMap.get(index), streamVolume, streamVolume, 1, 0, 1f);
}
public void playLoopedSound(int index) {
int streamVolume = mAudioManager.getStreamVolume(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
mSoundPool.play(mSoundPoolMap.get(index), streamVolume, streamVolume, 1, -1, 1f);
}
}

OK, I see it uses SoundPool. First, change your definition for addSound to:
Code:
public void addSound(int Index,int SoundID)
{
mSoundPoolMap.put([COLOR="Red"]Index[/COLOR], mSoundPool.load(mContext, SoundID, 1));
}
Here's code that should work to do a different tone each push and loop back to the beginning.
Code:
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
public class ButtonSound extends Activity{
private SoundManager mSoundManager;
private int next=0;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
mSoundManager=new SoundManager();
mSoundManager.initSounds(getBaseContext());
mSoundManager.addSound(0,R.raw.freeze);
mSoundManager.addSound(1,R.raw.ascend);
mSoundManager.addSound(2,R.raw.bubble);
mSoundManager.addSound(3,R.raw.chiff);
Button SoundButton=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
SoundButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
@Override
public void onClick(View v){
mSoundManager.playSound(next);
next++;
if(next>3)
next=0;
}
});
}
}

Gene Poole said:
OK, I see it uses SoundPool. First, change your definition for addSound to:
Code:
public void addSound(int Index,int SoundID)
{
mSoundPoolMap.put([COLOR="Red"]Index[/COLOR], mSoundPool.load(mContext, SoundID, 1));
}
Here's code that should work to do a different tone each push and loop back to the beginning.
Code:
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
public class ButtonSound extends Activity{
private SoundManager mSoundManager;
private int next=0;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
mSoundManager=new SoundManager();
mSoundManager.initSounds(getBaseContext());
mSoundManager.addSound(0,R.raw.freeze);
mSoundManager.addSound(1,R.raw.ascend);
mSoundManager.addSound(2,R.raw.bubble);
mSoundManager.addSound(3,R.raw.chiff);
Button SoundButton=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
SoundButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener(){
@Override
public void onClick(View v){
mSoundManager.playSound(next);
next++;
if(next>3)
next=0;
}
});
}
}
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Mkay, so I adjusted my code according to the example and everything came back error free; however, when I run the app and click the button, nothing happens. No sound, but no force close either.
I ran the Debugger and it's telling me that the SoundPool sample is not ready. "Sample 1 not READY", "Sample 2 not READY", etc.

I don't know. I assume you used different names for your sound files. I just grabbed those out of the "notifications" directory of my phone.

Gene Poole said:
I don't know. I assume you used different names for your sound files. I just grabbed those out of the "notifications" directory of my phone.
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Alright, that's cool. Thanks a lot for all of the help. I owe you one.

[Q] how to change the starting activity

Hi there,
I would like some advice on what I should look for if I want to implement the following basic scenario:
the app starts with an activity (call it Activity_1) which contains a button
on clicking the button, takes me to a different activity (call it Activity_2)
next time i start the app, it takes me directly to Activity_2
and Activity_1 won't be seen again
So how can I change the startup activity?

What's happening is that Android is not closing your app in between starts, it's only backgrounding it. One thing you could do is to override the onResume() method in your Activity_2 to call finish() if for instance you have set some variable, let's call it appPaused and it would act just like you had pressed the back button (which will also take you back to Activity_1).
Like below:
Code:
package com.test.example;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
public class Activity_2 extends Activity
{
boolean appPaused = false;
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onPause()
{
appPaused = true;
}
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onResume()
{
if(appPaused)
finish();
}
}

thanks for the answer. i want to consider that the app is closed, like after restarting the device. i don't want it to be able to start with Activity_1 unless, let's say, i re-install the app.
i also had an idea about having a 3rd activity as the main one defined in the manifest, which on create changes to one of the other activities. but i don't know how that would be implemented. would it work?
octobclrnts said:
What's happening is that Android is not closing your app in between starts, it's only backgrounding it. One thing you could do is to override the onResume() method in your Activity_2 to call finish() if for instance you have set some variable, let's call it appPaused and it would act just like you had pressed the back button (which will also take you back to Activity_1).
Like below:
Code:
package com.test.example;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
public class Activity_2 extends Activity
{
boolean appPaused = false;
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
}
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onPause()
{
appPaused = true;
}
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onResume()
{
if(appPaused)
finish();
}
}
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Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood your question the first time. If you don't want an activity to be shown except for say the first time after an install (maybe it's a login screen or similar), I would in my main activity, use the SharedPreferences class to see if I have a preference set like below:
Code:
package com.test.example;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
public class Activity_Start extends Activity
{
boolean appPaused = false;
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
if(!prefs.contains("loggedIn"))
{
//run activity only if never run before
startActivity(new Intent(this,Activity_Logon.class));
}
else
{
//do something else every other time
}
}
}
Code:
package com.test.example;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
public class Activity_Logon extends Activity
{
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
doLogon();
finish();
}
private void doLogon()
{
//logon code
SharedPreferences.Editor edit = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this).edit();
edit.putBoolean("loggedIn",true);
}
}

oh, ok. so from what I get SharedPreferences is a db where you can quickly save variables between sessions. great, I'll try it
octobclrnts said:
Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood your question the first time. If you don't want an activity to be shown except for say the first time after an install (maybe it's a login screen or similar), I would in my main activity, use the SharedPreferences class to see if I have a preference set like below:
Code:
package com.test.example;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
public class Activity_Start extends Activity
{
boolean appPaused = false;
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
if(!prefs.contains("loggedIn"))
{
//run activity only if never run before
startActivity(new Intent(this,Activity_Logon.class));
}
else
{
//do something else every other time
}
}
}
Code:
package com.test.example;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
public class Activity_Logon extends Activity
{
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
doLogon();
finish();
}
private void doLogon()
{
//logon code
SharedPreferences.Editor edit = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this).edit();
edit.putBoolean("loggedIn",true);
}
}
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K-RAD said:
oh, ok. so from what I get SharedPreferences is a db where you can quickly save variables between sessions. great, I'll try it
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That's absolutely right. You can store Strings and primitive values indexed by String keys.

octobclrnts said:
That's absolutely right. You can store Strings and primitive values indexed by String keys.
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in the second activity, doLogon() needed an edit.apply() at the end. it works somehow, but the problem is when i press the back button, it still takes me to the first activity, and i don'twant to see it anymore after i press the button. here's my code
Code:
package com.example.onetimeactivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
[user=439709]@override[/user]
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
SharedPreferences prefs = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this);
if(!prefs.contains("loggedIn"))
{
//run activity only if never run before
Button b = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
b.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onClick(View arg0) {
startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, SecondActivity.class));
}
});
}
else
{
//do something else every other time
startActivity(new Intent(this,SecondActivity.class));
}
}
}
Code:
package com.example.onetimeactivity;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;
public class SecondActivity extends Activity
{
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_second);
doLogon();
}
private void doLogon()
{
//logon code
SharedPreferences.Editor edit = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(this).edit();
edit.putBoolean("loggedIn",true);
edit.apply();
}
}

i managed to resolve it by adding android:noHistory="true" to the manifest. however, now i really can't see the first activity, not even if i rebuild the code ))
K-RAD said:
in the second activity, doLogon() needed an edit.apply() at the end. it works somehow, but the problem is when i press the back button, it still takes me to the first activity, and i don'twant to see it anymore after i press the button. here's my code
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K-RAD said:
in the second activity, doLogon() needed an edit.apply() at the end. it works somehow, but the problem is when i press the back button, it still takes me to the first activity, and i don'twant to see it anymore after i press the button. here's my code
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Thanks for catching my mistake. You're right that it does need an apply (or before API level 9, commit()) call.
If you don't want to see the activity MainActivity anymore, then you have to make some changes to your structure. You should make an Activity that will be the one that always shows when the user opens the app. That activity is the one who should check the SharedPreferences for your entry. If the entry does not exist, it should call the one-time-activity. Then the one-time-activity should do it's work and save the entry and call finish() to go back to the main activity (the one you usually want to be shown). This way the activity stack will be correct for the back key functionality.

what it sounds like you want is something like a splash/logon screen
like previously said use sharedprefs.
in the splash/logon call the sharedpref and make the default false (I use booleans, you can use ints or strings):
so it would be like this
Code:
SharedPreferences settings;
SharedPreferences.Editor editor;
boolean splash;
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onCreate() {
settings = getSharedPreferences("settings", 0);
splash = settings.getboolean("splash", false);
editor = settings.edit();
if(splash == false){
setContentView(//the view you are using);
//do everything else you need to do
button.setonclicklistener(new OnClickListener(){
editor.putboolean("splash", true);
editor.commit();
finish();
});
}else{
//open up your second activity
finish();
}
if its a login screen, when the user clicks logout you would do the editor and change "splash" to false.

Error opening trace file: No such file or directory (2)

Hello,
I did a search on this forum and did not find a solution. This is my first time using the forum by the way. Anyways, I am developing my first application with one main activity that has two buttons each trying to open another activity.
When I try to run the app in Eclipse, I get the following error:
Error opening trace file: No such file or directory (2)
Any direction on how I can solve this would be greatly appreciated.

Absolutely! Here it is:
Code:
package com.mcrsports.mcr;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
[user=439709]@override[/user]
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
//-----LATEST NEWS BUTTON-----
Button newsButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.latestNewsButton);
newsButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onClick(View v) {
startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, LatestNewsActivity.class));
}
});
//-----PARK LOCATIONS BUTTON-----
Button parksButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.parkLocationsButton);
parksButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public void onClick(View v) {
startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, ParkLocationsActivity.class));
}
});
}
[user=439709]@override[/user]
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
}

For me it happens as well and I have never had any problems.
However, here are some solutions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11446049/error-opening-trace-file-no-such-file-or-directory-2

Attached is my manifest file. Since I am new and have less than 10 posts, I could not successfully cut/paste within
Code:
block, so I pasted it into Notepad.
Thanks.

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How can I call a number from button press in Android?

hello I need help i need it to when the user clicks a button in my app is calls a specific phone number when I try doing it on my phone i click the button and it says app has crashed
Please help heres my class file:
Code:
package com.d4a.kingdomapp;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.net.Uri;
public class ComputerIssues extends Activity {
String number = "573-642-2800";
[user=439709]@override[/user]
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.computerissues);
// Here is code to go grab and layout the Buttons, they're named b1, b2, etc. and identified as such.
Button callfulton =(Button)findViewById(R.id.fultonoffice);
callfulton.setOnClickListener(buttonhandler);
}
View.OnClickListener buttonhandler=new View.OnClickListener() {
// Now I need to determine which button was clicked, and which intent or activity to launch.
public void onClick(View v) {
switch(v.getId()) {
// Now, which button did they press, and take me to that class/activity
case R.id.fultonoffice: //<<---- notice end line with colon, not a semicolon
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("tel:" +number));
startActivity(intent);
}
}
};
}
Thanks in advance
Regards
Rapsong11

Have you declared the permission in your menifest?
Add this permission

Yes I have
Thanks for the reply
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda app-developers app

Problems with RSS Reader

Hi Guys,
a friend of mine told me to ask the question here, I hope this is the right category.
I startet an android application project with an integrated RSS Reader.
I programmed it with a tutorial from a website ( I can't post the link because I'm new, sorry).
It went all good, no Errors or something like that. When I installed the .apk file on my device (Samsung S3, with standard ROM) and started it
the Rss news won't be shown. :-/
These are the files for my Rss Reader:
RssReader.java
Code:
package com.android.simplerssreader.util;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import com.android.simplerssreader.data.RssItem;
public class RssReader {
private String rssUrl;
public RssReader(String rssUrl){
this.rssUrl = rssUrl;
}
public List<RssItem> getItems() throws Exception {
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
RssParseHandler handler = new RssParseHandler();
saxParser.parse (rssUrl, handler);
return handler.getItems();
}
}
RssParseHandler
Code:
package com.android.simplerssreader.util;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
import com.android.simplerssreader.data.RssItem;
public class RssParseHandler extends DefaultHandler {
private List<RssItem> rssItems;
private RssItem currentItem;
private boolean parsingTitle;
private boolean parsingLink;
public RssParseHandler(){
rssItems = new ArrayList<RssItem>();
}
public List<RssItem> getItems(){
return rssItems;
}
@Override
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName,
Attributes attributes) throws SAXException{
if ("content-item".equals(qName)){
currentItem = new RssItem();
} else if ("title".equals(qName)){
parsingTitle=true;
} else if ("url".equals(qName)){
parsingLink = true;
}
};
@Override
public void endElement (String uri, String localName, String qName)
throws SAXException{
if ("content-item".equals(qName)){
rssItems.add(currentItem);
currentItem = null;
} else if ("title".equals(qName)){
parsingTitle = false;
} else if ("url".equals(qName)){
parsingLink = false;
}
}
@Override
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
throws SAXException {
if (parsingTitle) {
if (currentItem !=null)
currentItem.setTitle(new String(ch,start, length));
} else if (parsingLink) {
if(currentItem !=null){
currentItem.setLink(new String(ch, start, length));
parsingLink = false;
}
}
}
}
ListListener
Code:
package com.example.brueckenkopf_onlineapp;
import java.util.List;
import com.android.simplerssreader.data.*;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
public class ListListener implements OnItemClickListener {
List<RssItem> listItems;
Activity activity;
public ListListener(List<RssItem> listItems, Activity activity) {
this.listItems = listItems;
this.activity = activity;
}
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int pos, long id) {
Intent i = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(listItems.get(pos).getLink()));
activity.startActivity(i);
}
}
RssItem
Code:
package com.android.simplerssreader.data;
public class RssItem {
private String title;
private String link;
public String getTitle() {
return title;
}
public void setTitle(String title) {
this.title = title;
}
public String getLink() {
return link;
}
public void setLink(String link) {
this.link = link;
}
}
MainActivity
Code:
package com.example.brueckenkopf_onlineapp;
import com.android.simplerssreader.data.RssItem;
import com.android.simplerssreader.util.RssReader;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.support.v4.app.NavUtils;
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
try {
RssReader rssReader =new RssReader("Here comes the RSS Link, which I also can't post here");
ListView Items = (ListView)findViewById(R.id.listView1);
ArrayAdapter<RssItem> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<RssItem>(this,android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1,rssReader.getItems());
Items.setAdapter(adapter);
Items.setOnItemClickListener(new ListListener(rssReader.getItems(), this)); } catch (Exception e){
Log.e("SimpleRssReader", e.getMessage());
}
}
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
return true;
}
}
The LogCat says it cannot open the RSS Link. But the Link is not wrong (I also tried it with an RSS Link of another website). Both don't work.
I hope you can help me