Play sound on button click android

Question

How do I get a button to play a sound from raw when click? I just created a button with id button1, but whatever code I write, all is wrong.

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Answer 1

An edge case: Above every answer is almost correct but I was stuck in an edge case. If any user randomly clicks the button multiple times within a few seconds then after playing some sound it doesn't respond anymore.

Reason: Initialize Mediaplayer object is very expensive. It also deals with resources (audio file) so it takes some time for it. When users randomly initialize and calling a method of MediaPlayer's methods like start(), stop(), release(), etc can cause IllegalStateException which I faced.

Solution: Thanks caw for his suggestion in the comment about Android-Audio. It has just a simple two java classes (MusicManager.java, SoundManager.java).

You can use MusicManager.java if you want to play one-off sound files -

MusicManager.getInstance().play(MyActivity.this, R.raw.my_sound);

You can use SoundManager.java if you want to play multiple sounds frequently and fast -

class MyActivity extends Activity {

    private SoundManager mSoundManager;

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();

        int maxSimultaneousStreams = 3;
        mSoundManager = new SoundManager(this, maxSimultaneousStreams);
        mSoundManager.start();
        mSoundManager.load(R.raw.my_sound_1);
        mSoundManager.load(R.raw.my_sound_2);
        mSoundManager.load(R.raw.my_sound_3);
    }

    private void playSomeSound() {
        if (mSoundManager != null) {
            mSoundManager.play(R.raw.my_sound_2);
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPause() {
        super.onPause();

        if (mSoundManager != null) {
            mSoundManager.cancel();
            mSoundManager = null;
        }
    }

}