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

Modified Code Based on Singhaks' answer

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    private final int duration = 30; // seconds
    private final int sampleRate = 8000;
    private final int numSamples = duration * sampleRate;
    private final double sample[] = new double[numSamples];
    private final double freqOfTone = 440; // hz
    private final byte generatedSnd[] = new byte[2 * numSamples];
    Handler handler = new Handler();
    private AudioTrack audioTrack;
    private boolean play = false;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        audioTrack = new AudioTrack(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC,
                8000, AudioFormat.CHANNEL_OUT_MONO,
                AudioFormat.ENCODING_PCM_16BIT, numSamples,
                AudioTrack.MODE_STREAM);
    }

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

        // Use a new tread as this can take a while
        Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {

                handler.post(new Runnable() {

                    public void run() {
                        playSound();
                        genTone();
                    }
                });
            }   
        });
        thread.start();
    }

    void genTone(){
        // fill out the array
        while(play){
                for (int i = 0; i < numSamples; ++i) {
                //  float angular_frequency = 
                    sample[i] = Math.sin(2 * Math.PI * i / (sampleRate/freqOfTone));
                }
                int idx = 0;

                // convert to 16 bit pcm sound array
                // assumes the sample buffer is normalised.
                for (double dVal : sample) {
                    short val = (short) (dVal * 32767);
                    generatedSnd[idx++] = (byte) (val & 0x00ff);
                    generatedSnd[idx++] = (byte) ((val & 0xff00) >>> 8);
                }
                audioTrack.write(generatedSnd, 0, numSamples);
            }
        }


    void playSound(){
        play = true;
        audioTrack.play();
    }
}