How to play an android notification sound

Question

I was wondering how I could play a notification sound without playing it over the media stream. Right now I can do this via the media player, however I don't want it to play as a media file, I want it to play as a notification or alert or ringtone. heres an example of what my code looks like right now:

MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer(); mp.reset(); mp.setDataSource(notificationsPath+ (String) apptSounds.getSelectedItem()); mp.prepare(); mp.start(); 

Answer 1

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.