I'm trying to make an an android app whereby if the user answers the phone call the mp3 file will start and the voice of the call will be the mp3 file.
Meaning when the app is triggered, it'll make a phone call to itself and when you answer it, the mp3 file will act as the voice behind the phone call.
I know how to make a simple phone call app, but I can't get it to call itself nor making the mp3 file play as the voice from the other side of the phone. Any guides on how to perform this?
A similar question about having a phone call itself was answered here, and says that this is not possible (which makes sense). As recommended there as well, your best bet is to probably use MediaPlayer to play the MP3 file to the user, and make the application look like a phone app if it really needs to be like a call.
Related
I'm going to make one app, in this the partial requirement is like this: get the currently playing audio name using service. I tried but I'm unable to find the exact way, here is my finding. How to get all the audio file using mediastore
There is no way to know what file another app may be playing.
I am kind of stuck on my app design and wondering, if some of you experts, could point me in the right direction.
I am working an Android App that shows how to pronounce different English words.
When user clicks on a play button next to a word, corresponding audio file (prerecorded wav file) is played with Android media player. I have 2000 words and corresponding wav files (each file is between 1 to 2 seconds).
But the problem is, I can’t pack all 2000 audio files into APP, as it will make APP too big. I am wondering, what is the best way of having the audio files on the server somewhere, and when user clicks play button next to a word, my APP plays from server. Are there any other ways of doing this?
Do I need streaming server for this (it’s not live stream), if so would you please let me know some that host? Can I use Heroku?
Thanks for help
Srini
You do not need a streaming server for that. A simple web pages server will do the job. Just put all your files in (maybe via ftp) to the server in a directory that you now exactly. From there, you can use the MediaPlayer class of android to play those sounds in streaming with the appropriate link to the file.
everyone!
Me and my team are developing some audio books that we will sell through our android application and our users will also listen them using the in-app mp3 player. We want to find a method (paid or free) to be able to protect our mp3's so the user cannot copy them and play with their own player.
I am aware that someone that is determined can crack anything, but our user targets are not computer geeks, but regular people that want a product that works and occasionally might try to cheat the system
Do you know any system that is easy to implement and can meet our objectives ?
Thank you in advance.
Do you know any system that is easy to implement and can meet our objectives ?
Stream the files from your server (e.g., using RTSP), or store them in internal storage on the device. Those will stop "regular people that want a product that works and occasionally might try to cheat the system" from being able to access MP3 files, which you can then play back using MediaPlayer within your own app ("in-app mp3 player").
I've been following this blog to help me make a simple music player function with an Android app (http://simonmacdonald.blogspot.com/2011/05/using-media-class-in-phonegap.html).
All works well - but I would like some way to extract a list of all music media stored on the phone so the user can click a file and play it. Does anyone know if this is possible via phone gap? I'd need to access track name/artist etc and a link to the track.
Cheers
Paul
Prognosis is not good.... PhoneGap does not have an API for accessing the media library. So, you would have to fall back to the File API to locate music files, and then... you would have to read the binary data in the actual files to extract out the track/artist metadata. Ouch. Seems pretty impractical.
[EDIT]
By the way, PhoneGap is not the only game in town. Appcelerator seems to solve the same problem, and apparently has a richer API, which includes
access to media metadata
I'd like my Android application to download an mp3 file from the internet and play it like a stream while downloading it. Is this even possible? How would I go about doing it?
Essentially I want the user to be able to listen to the file instantly, but have it keep downloading to the SD Card even if he stops listening, so the whole mp3 file will end up on the SD Card either way.
I don't believe android provides the functionality you're asking for. But there's one workaround I know of that might work.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=739 is an open ticket with a lot of discussion that relates to what you're describing. In the 5th comment seeingwithsound says
However, as a workaround I next stream my synthesized data to temporary files much like you consider streaming your HTTP streams to files, for subsequent playback of these files via MediaPlayer. [...] It looks though like your problem might be served by more control over MediaPlayer's buffering, because you are essentially concatenating streams through some cache mechanism (buffer) ...
To be honest I haven't played with MediaPlayer too much, so I can't give you too many details on how to "control MediaPlayer's buffering". But assuming you can get that to work, I suggest that you download your .mp3 file to (a) temporary file(s) which you can then point MediaPlayer to.
Sorry this answer is so vague, but you're entering territory that few others have before attempted. Good luck.
For Android devices 2.3 and earlier, you need to remove the Content-Disposition response header altogether. This will cause the browser to invoke the audio player of the user's preference.
Try it here: http://declinefm.com/archives select an archive of your choice, and tap the download link.
For modern Android devices, you can dispense with the removal of the CD header.
I have a tutorial here that I wrote inspired on your post:
http://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/how-to-properly-stream-audio-from-your-plone-varnish-site
Enjoy!
RTSP or HTTP? If HTTP you can try and remove the Content-Length header which on some mobile devices will allow for immediate invocation of the player. It sounds as though you're pumping the data through a local app. How are you playing the file now?