I have used the mediaplayer before, and I have never had this problem. Whenever I try to use MediaPlayer.create(), the method gives me null, and I can\'t play my sounds. Is
In my case, it was the emulator (AVD)
Make sure that you also test it using a real Android device
or, create a new AVD profile with better spec and newer Android version
What seems to always work regardless of which AVD is using 128kbps mp3 audio file