Simple Synth

This sample app will play a 440Hz sine wave. It demonstrates how to:

Create a simple synthesizer which renders audio data to an OpenSL ES player
Set thread affinity on the OpenSL ES callback to avoid CPU core migrations
Stabilize a varying load to avoid audio glitches caused by CPU frequency scaling
Monitor underruns in real time (API 24+ only, see below for more info)

Building

Load this project into Android Studio
Hit the green 'Run' button to build and run Simple Synth on the Android emulator or attached Android device (must be API 21+)

Instructions for use

There are 4 UI controls. Here's what they do:

Test tone: Toggles the synthesizer tone on and off
Variable load: Varies the load (number of computations) used to render the synthesizer audio data. Every 2 seconds the load will change from HIGH (100% of the chosen work cycles) to LOW (10% of the chosen number of work cycles).
Stabilized load: Only useful when variable load is on, will attempt to smooth out a varying load
Work cycles: Allows you to set the number of computations used to render the synthesizer audio data.

Screenshots

Notes

Real time monitoring of audio underruns is only supported on API 24+ (the AcquireJavaProxy method was introduced in API 24+). If you are running this sample on an older API you can monitor underruns by running adb shell dumpsys media.audio_flinger. The underrun count of the audio output stream is shown in the UndFrmCnt column.

License

Copyright 2017 Google, Inc.

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