Playing an arbitrary tone with Android

Question

Is there any way to make Android emit a sound of arbitrary frequency (meaning, I don\'t want to have pre-recorded sound files)?

I\'ve looked around and ToneGenerator

Answer 1

Improving on the above code:

Add amplitude ramp up and ramp down to avoid the clicks.

Add code to determine when the tack has finished playing.

double duration = 1;            // seconds
double freqOfTone = 1000;       // hz
int sampleRate = 8000;          // a number

double dnumSamples = duration * sampleRate;
dnumSamples = Math.ceil(dnumSamples);
int numSamples = (int) dnumSamples;
double sample[] = new double[numSamples];
byte generatedSnd[] = new byte[2 * numSamples];


for (int i = 0; i < numSamples; ++i) {    // Fill the sample array
    sample[i] = Math.sin(freqOfTone * 2 * Math.PI * i / (sampleRate));
}

// convert to 16 bit pcm sound array
// assumes the sample buffer is normalized.
// convert to 16 bit pcm sound array
// assumes the sample buffer is normalised.
int idx = 0;
int i = 0 ;

int ramp = numSamples / 20 ;                                     // Amplitude ramp as a percent of sample count


for (i = 0; i< ramp; ++i) {                                      // Ramp amplitude up (to avoid clicks)
    double dVal = sample[i];
                                                                 // Ramp up to maximum
    final short val = (short) ((dVal * 32767 * i/ramp));
                                                                 // in 16 bit wav PCM, first byte is the low order byte
    generatedSnd[idx++] = (byte) (val & 0x00ff);
    generatedSnd[idx++] = (byte) ((val & 0xff00) >>> 8);
}


for (i = i; i< numSamples - ramp; ++i) {                         // Max amplitude for most of the samples
    double dVal = sample[i];
                                                                 // scale to maximum amplitude
    final short val = (short) ((dVal * 32767));
                                                                 // in 16 bit wav PCM, first byte is the low order byte
    generatedSnd[idx++] = (byte) (val & 0x00ff);
    generatedSnd[idx++] = (byte) ((val & 0xff00) >>> 8);
}

for (i = i; i< numSamples; ++i) {                                // Ramp amplitude down
    double dVal = sample[i];
                                                                 // Ramp down to zero
    final short val = (short) ((dVal * 32767 * (numSamples-i)/ramp ));
                                                                 // in 16 bit wav PCM, first byte is the low order byte
    generatedSnd[idx++] = (byte) (val & 0x00ff);
    generatedSnd[idx++] = (byte) ((val & 0xff00) >>> 8);
}

AudioTrack audioTrack = null;                                    // Get audio track
try {
    audioTrack = new AudioTrack(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC,
        sampleRate, AudioFormat.CHANNEL_CONFIGURATION_MONO,
        AudioFormat.ENCODING_PCM_16BIT, (int)numSamples*2,
        AudioTrack.MODE_STATIC);
    audioTrack.write(generatedSnd, 0, generatedSnd.length);        // Load the track
    audioTrack.play();                                             // Play the track
}
catch (Exception e){
    RunTimeError("Error: " + e);
    return false;
}

int x =0;
do{                                                              // Monitor playback to find when done
    if (audioTrack != null) 
        x = audioTrack.getPlaybackHeadPosition(); 
    else 
        x = numSamples;
} while (x