How to Play Ringtone/Alarm Sound in Android

How to play ringtone sound in Android with infinite loop?

It seems the simplest way is to create a MediaPlayer from the Uri returned from RingtoneManager, and set it to loop.

Uri notification = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
MediaPlayer player = MediaPlayer.create(this, notification);
player.setLooping(true);
player.start();

How to play an android notification sound

If anyone's still looking for a solution to this, I found an answer at How to play ringtone/alarm sound in Android

try {
    Uri notification = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
    Ringtone r = RingtoneManager.getRingtone(getApplicationContext(), notification);
    r.play();
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

You can change TYPE_NOTIFICATION to TYPE_ALARM, but you'll want to keep track of your Ringtone r in order to stop playing it... say, when the user clicks a button or something.

Playing sound as Media/Alarm/Ringtone?

I have found a solution: not using the .create() method. Instead use .setDataSource() and .prepare(). Code below:

public void ringAlarm() {

    Uri alarmUri = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_ALARM);
    if (alarmUri == null) {
        alarmUri = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_RINGTONE);
    }

    if (alarmUri == null) {
        Log.e("ringAlarm" , "alarmUri null. Unable to get default sound URI");
        return;
    }

    MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer();
    // This is what sets the media type as alarm
    // Thus, the sound will be influenced by alarm volume
    mp.setAudioAttributes(new AudioAttributes.Builder()
                             .setUsage(AudioAttributes.USAGE_ALARM).build());

    try {
        mp.setDataSource(getApplicationContext(), alarmUri);
        mp.prepare();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    // To continuously loop the alarm sound
    mp.setLooping(true);
    mp.start();
}

How to get Ringtone from system sounds

This worked for me :

Uri ringtone= RingtoneManager.getActualDefaultRingtoneUri(YourActivity.this, RingtoneManager.TYPE_ALARM);

And as stated by this answer, you have to do the following:

Intent intent=new Intent(RingtoneManager.ACTION_RINGTONE_PICKER);
intent.putExtra(RingtoneManager.EXTRA_RINGTONE_EXISTING_URI, ringtone);
intent.putExtra(RingtoneManager.EXTRA_RINGTONE_DEFAULT_URI, ringtone);
startActivityForResult(intent , 1);

And finally you get the selected tone "uri" which you can store in ringtone as shown below in onActivityResult()

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
        switch (requestCode) {
        case 1:
            ringtone = data.getParcelableExtra(RingtoneManager.EXTRA_RINGTONE_PICKED_URI);
            break;    
        default:
            break;
        }
    }
}

Using ringtone and notification in an alarm receiver class

Here is a similar issue that shows how to use ringtone, vibration and lights through, notifications in a receiver

How can I enable vibration and lights using the Android notifications api?

MediaPlayer (or Ringtone) doesn't start playing when the screen is off (phone is locked)

I know what the problem was. I was stopping the MediaPlayer in onPause and it was called before the activity got visible (I don't know why).

2019-10-19 02:38:00.365 LOG:onReceive
2019-10-19 02:38:00.428 LOG:onCreate
2019-10-19 02:38:00.529 LOG:onResume
2019-10-19 02:38:00.542 LOG:onPause
2019-10-19 02:38:00.592 LOG:onStop
2019-10-19 02:38:00.716 LOG:onResume

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