Set Notification Sound from Assets folder

Question

I am attaching the sound files in the assets folder for play sound in the notification but I am not able to play sound from the assets folder.

I have setting page from which user can set the sound for the notification and also user can play sound. This part is completed. I am able to play sound from the assets folder using Media Player. I can use same logic at the Notification creation time but problem can be happened when user click on the Notification because media player still playing the sound.

I tried

notification.sound = Uri.parse("file:///android_asset/Sound/Long/AlarmClock.mp3");

also tried like this

notification.sound = Uri.parse("android_asset/Sound/Long/AlarmClock.mp3");

but my issue is still not solved.

Is there any other way to set the sound in the notification from the assets directory ?

Logcat

01-10 09:57:01.509: ERROR/PlayerDriver(31): Command PLAYER_SET_DATA_SOURCE completed with an error or info PVMFErrNotSupported
01-10 09:57:01.509: ERROR/MediaPlayer(52): error (1, -4)
01-10 09:57:01.519: WARN/NotificationService(52): error loading sound for android_asset/Sound/Long/audio.mp3
01-10 09:57:01.519: WARN/NotificationService(52): java.io.IOException: Prepare failed.: status=0x1
01-10 09:57:01.519: WARN/NotificationService(52):     at android.media.MediaPlayer.prepare(Native Method)
01-10 09:57:01.519: WARN/NotificationService(52):     at android.media.AsyncPlayer.startSound(AsyncPlayer.java:64)
01-10 09:57:01.519: WARN/NotificationService(52):     at android.media.AsyncPlayer.access$200(AsyncPlayer.java:33)
01-10 09:57:01.519: WARN/NotificationService(52):     at android.media.AsyncPlayer$Thread.run(AsyncPlayer.java:99)
01-10 09:57:01.519: WARN/PlayerDriver(31): PVMFInfoErrorHandlingComplete

or any other idea ? Please give me hint.

Solution 1

put ur mp3 file in res->raw folder, try to fetch sound file from raw folder.

Uri path = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.androidbook.samplevideo/" + R.raw.myvideo);

OR

Uri path = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.androidbook.samplevideo/raw/myvideo");

Solution 2

This worked perfectly for me. I found it on another post.

notification.sound = Uri.parse("android.resource://my.package.name/raw/notification");

Solution 3

assets are private resources to that app, I think you wont be able to set them as ringtone, you will need a public file which is accessible by the media process to set ringtone. You will have to copy the file to sdcard to set it as ringtone.

Comments

[Dharmendra]

Ok let me try with three slashes

[Dharmendra]

Yeah this is great idea to create content provider to access internal files

[Dharmendra]

Yeah I think you are right. to access the private resources I will have to use content provider.

[Dharmendra]

Your Uri indicates that you are accessing the resource folder rather than from assets. You are referencing a file from row folder inside your resources.

[Dharmendra]

Indeed this is good that we put a sound file into the row folder and refer that file.

[leontx]

Note, i found that the sound had to be an .mp3 to work, not .ogg (like the rest of our sounds). And, as rajpara showed above, it also seemed necessary to not include the extension. So my sound file, push.mp3 in the myproject/res/raw folder, worked with: android.resource://com.mycompany.myapp/raw/push

[wutzebaer]

and how can i get the Ringtone from this AssetFileDescriptor?

[Chiatar]

@wutzebaer You can give NotificationCompat.Builder a URI of a sound to play with the notification. openAssetFile in your content provider is given this URI and returns the AssetFileDescriptor to the notification to play developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/app/…

[Zia Ur Rahman]

@rajpara Please tell me how to code to set this Uri as Ringtone, Notification and Alarm. I didn't find something relevant.

[Steve Strates]

The first approach of referencing R.raw.myvideo will stop working if that resource id ever changes, since the Notification Channel never lets you change the sound/path. See this post: stackoverflow.com/a/54796493/5301868

[greeble31]

Can't emphasize enough: If you are using this scheme to produce a sound URI to use with a NotificationChannel, be aware that the resource ID can change between builds. And, since you can't edit the URI associated with a given NotificationChannel (once it has been established), this will cause your app's notification sounds to break randomly after updates. Use this pattern instead; avoid using the integer resource ID.

[greeble31]

The question does not concern ringtones.