Playing sound file in assets folder on Android

gistfile1.java

import android.media.MediaPlayer;

public class PlayerExample {
    MediaPlayer p = null;		
    private void playSound(String fileName) {
        p = new MediaPlayer();
        try {
            AssetFileDescriptor afd = ctx.getAssets().openFd(fileName);
            p.setDataSource(afd.getFileDescriptor(), afd.getStartOffset(), afd.getLength());
            afd.close();
            p.prepare();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        p.start();
    }
}

Make sure you are passing in the Context:

import android.media.MediaPlayer;

public final class PlayerExample {
    MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();

    public void playSound(Context context, String fileName) {
        try {
            AssetFileDescriptor descriptor = context.getAssets().openFd(fileName);
            mediaPlayer.setDataSource(descriptor.getFileDescriptor(), descriptor.getStartOffset(), descriptor.getLength());
            descriptor.close();
            mediaPlayer.prepare();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        mediaPlayer.start();
    }
}

How do I make it stop once it has started? @jaredsburrows @hkurosawa

@KidusMT, I believe you call stop() for MediaPlayer. See here: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaPlayer#stop().

Yes Yes... I did. Thank you! @jaredsburrows

public void stopSound() {
        if (mediaPlayer != null)
            mediaPlayer.stop();
    }