Playing a standard/system sound on phone xamarin forms - xamarin

Question

Is there a standard cross platform way of playing a 250 ms or so 'ding' on Xamarin Forms iOS and Android?
Mark Wardell

Answer 1

You can use DependencyService to play default system notification sound in each platform .
Create IPlaySoundService Interface :
public interface IPlaySoundService
{
void PlaySystemSound();
}
Implement the PlaySystemSound method in iOS as follow:
[assembly: Xamarin.Forms.Dependency(typeof(PlaySoundService))]
namespace AppCarouselViewSample.iOS
{
public class PlaySoundService : IPlaySoundService
{
public void PlaySystemSound()
{
var sound = new SystemSound(1000);
sound.PlaySystemSound();
}
}
}
Implement the PlaySystemSound method in Android as follow :
[assembly:Xamarin.Forms.Dependency(typeof(PlaySoundService))]
namespace AppCarouselViewSample.Droid
{
public class PlaySoundService : IPlaySoundService
{
public void PlaySystemSound()
{
Android.Net.Uri uri = RingtoneManager.GetDefaultUri(RingtoneType.Ringtone);
Ringtone rt = RingtoneManager.GetRingtone(MainActivity.instance.ApplicationContext, uri);
rt.Play();
}
}
}
This is the definition of instance from MainActivity :
namespace xxx.Droid
{
[Activity(Label = "AppCarouselViewSample", Icon = "#mipmap/icon", Theme = "#style/MainTheme", MainLauncher = true, ConfigurationChanges = ConfigChanges.ScreenSize | ConfigChanges.Orientation)]
public class MainActivity : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FormsAppCompatActivity
{
public static MainActivity instance { set; get; }
protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
TabLayoutResource = Resource.Layout.Tabbar;
ToolbarResource = Resource.Layout.Toolbar;
base.OnCreate(savedInstanceState);
instance = this;
Xamarin.Forms.Forms.SetFlags(new string[] { "CarouselView_Experimental", "SwipeView_Experimental", "IndicatorView_Experimental" });
Xamarin.Essentials.Platform.Init(this, savedInstanceState);
global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(this, savedInstanceState);
LoadApplication(new App());
}
...
}
Then it they will play the default notification Sound in each platform . You can modify SystemSoundID in iOS to fit your wants .Here is the Sound ID list .

Answer 2

here is my now compiling yet crashing Droid implementation
using Android.Media;
using TripCalculator.Droid.Services;
[assembly: Xamarin.Forms.Dependency(typeof(PlaySoundService))]
// Crashes
namespace TripCalculator.Droid.Services
{
public class PlaySoundService : IPlaySoundService
{
public void PlaySystemSound()
{
var currentContext = Android.App.Application.Context;
Android.Net.Uri uri = RingtoneManager.GetDefaultUri(RingtoneType.Ringtone);
Ringtone rt = RingtoneManager.GetRingtone(currentContext.ApplicationContext, uri);
rt.Play();
}
}
}