How to bring up list of available notification sounds on Android

Question

I\'m creating notifications in my Android application, and would like to have an option in my preferences to set what sound is used for the notification. I know that in the

Answer 1

Here's another approach (in Kotlin), build from other answers in this question, that allows you to specify the name of the tone, and then play it:

fun playErrorTone(activity: Activity, context: Context, notificationName: String = "Betelgeuse") {

    val notifications = getNotificationSounds(activity)

    try {
        val tone = notifications.getValue(notificationName)
        val errorTone = RingtoneManager.getRingtone(context, Uri.parse(tone))
        errorTone.play()
    } catch (e: NoSuchElementException) {
        try {
            // If sound not found, default to first one in list
            val errorTone = RingtoneManager.getRingtone(context, Uri.parse(notifications.values.first()))
            errorTone.play()
        } catch (e: NoSuchElementException) {
            Timber.d("NO NOTIFICATION SOUNDS FOUND")
        }
    }
}

private fun getNotificationSounds(activity: Activity): HashMap {
    val manager = RingtoneManager(activity)
    manager.setType(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION)
    val cursor = manager.cursor

    val list = HashMap()
    while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
        val id = cursor.getString(RingtoneManager.ID_COLUMN_INDEX)
        val uri = cursor.getString(RingtoneManager.URI_COLUMN_INDEX)
        val title = cursor.getString(RingtoneManager.TITLE_COLUMN_INDEX)

        list.set(title, "$uri/$id")
    }

    return list
}

It can probably take some refactoring and optimization, but you should get the idea.