Sound streaming and playing

[diamondStar35]

Greetings everyone.
I have seen a previous discussion talking about using miniaudio for sound playing, and i don't know if this will work for my case or not.
What i need is a way to stream a sound file from a server, Not a long audio file, just a simple mp3 or ogg file from a server. I am targetting android for now. What are the recommended ways for doing this? Does miniaudio work?
Sorry if this discussion is already there, i just tried to search but I only found one, and i am pretty new to android developing.
Also is there a toga.sound class implemented already? It would simplify the work of having to test the libraries and see if they work or not.
Best regards.

[freakboy3742]

Support for audio devices is something that we'd like to add, but there is no cross platform "toga.Sound" or similar at present.

I haven't tried using miniaudio specifically - but the question of whether miniaudio is available for use is the same for any third party project - it depends whether the package has a binary component; and if it does, if binary wheels have been published for your platform and Python version of choice.

In this case, miniaudio does have a binary component, and the supplemental repository that Briefcase uses to provide Android wheels contains miniaudio wheels. However, I don't know if the Android version of the library contains full audio playback capability, or if it's limited to audio manipulation functions.

[mhsmith]

As far as I know, our current miniaudio builds don't support accessing audio devices on Android, only processing audio files.

[diamondStar35]

@mhsmith
So if the android version does not support audio playback, What are the current ways for achieving this?

[mhsmith]

There's an example at https://stackoverflow.com/a/74275351.

[diamondStar35]

I am currently performing a test to see if Miniaudio's playback functions would work on android. Thank you for your answer.
I'm looking forward to see a cross-platform sound implementation in toga in the future. :)
Also, is there a way to quickly check if a wheel is available on the repository that Beeware uses?

[freakboy3742]

Well - the quickest check is "does Briefcase successfully install it" :-)

Beyond that, the details are in the FAQ entry that I linked - check the wheel list on PyPI for one with an appropriate tag, and check the third-party repo that Briefcase uses for the package (this one for Android, this one for iOS).