Can't play sound on button click using playSoundEffect(SoundEffectConstants.CLICK)

Question

I have the following 2 lines of code:

myButton.performHapticFeedback(HapticFeedbackConstants.VIRTUAL_KEY);
myButton.playSoundEffect(SoundEffectConstants.CLICK);

When I press the button, haptic feedback works fine but no audio is heard.

Anybody had this problem when they started with Android?

Answer 1

I had this problem and it turned out to be something quite stupid on my part. I had disabled "Audible Selection" for the entire phone. On the home page, it's on Settings-->Sound-->Audible selection. There is probably a programmatic way to do the same thing but I have not found it yet.

Answer 2

I also had the same problem. On my Samsung Galaxy S4, the path is Settings --> My Device --> Sound --> Touch Sounds (under the System heading). Once I enabled this, then the default system sounds started working on my app.

Answer 3

Well, I came across the same situation, The trick was, to use Audiomanager.

define an AudioManager in the Activity class.

AudioManager audioManager;

Initialise in onCreate.

audioManager = (AudioManager)getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);

In the click method, use the audioManager to play the sound.

public void play(View view) {
    audioManager.playSoundEffect(SoundEffectConstants.CLICK,1.0f);
}

Note that the volume is given as 1.0f if you don't specify the volume, you won't hear any sound.