19 Audio Playback with SoundPool
Now that you are ready to go with your assets, it is time to actually play all these .wav files. Android’s audio APIs are fairly low level for the most part, but there is a tool practically tailor-made for the app you are writing: SoundPool.
SoundPool can load a large set of sounds into memory and control the maximum number of sounds that are playing back at any one time. So if your app’s user gets a bit too excited and mashes all the buttons at the same time, it will not break your app or overtax your phone.
Ready? Time to get started.
Creating a SoundPool
The first step is to create a SoundPool object.
Listing 19.1 Creating a SoundPool (BeatBox.java)
public class ...
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