[LAD] Realtime Audio on Android

[Dave Phillips]

Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
> I'm working on a cross platform mobile OS media player and doing some 
> research into Realtime audio playback on Android at the moment. It 
> seems there is a fairly small amount of info online and a lot less 
> fully fledged code examples than available for the iPhone platform. 
> For example I have already implemented my demo app in objective-C but 
> it looks like it is going to be significantly more effort to do the 
> same for Android.
>
> I have found a couple of interesting posts and articles about the 
> current state things. Maybe people round here would like to comment on 
> the situation?
>

While I attended a conference at Virginia Tech I sat in on Brad Garton's 
demonstration of how he creates applications for the iPhone. All OSX 
stuff, of course, but really interesting. I asked him about such a 
development environment for the Android but he didn't know of anything 
similar for Linux.


>
> Overview:
>
> http://www.wiseandroid.com/post/2010/07/13/Intro-to-the-three-Android-Audio-APIs.aspx
> http://mindtherobot.com/blog/555/android-audio-problems-hidden-limitations-and-o 
> <http://mindtherobot.com/blog/555/android-audio-problems-hidden-limitations-and-opensl-es/>pensl-es/ 
> <http://mindtherobot.com/blog/555/android-audio-problems-hidden-limitations-and-opensl-es/> 
>
>

Not looking very good. :(

However, the conference at VT also included a neat presentation by Peter 
Kirn in which he demonstrated libpd and its capabilities. IIRC he used 
an Android as a synth, but I may be wrong (might have been an iPhone).

Btw, Brad and Peter just about talked me out of getting a Mac. :)

Thanks for the information, Patrick. I wish the situation was better.

Best,

dp