Java SE5 javax.sound (MIDI) classes removed from Android libraries?

Apologies for cross-posting this topic to both this and the older ‘Hello, Android’ forums.

http://forums.pragprog.com/forums/67/topics/4090

I’m hoping for clarification on whether or not any current Android libraries support MIDI. I am new to Android but it appears to me that MIDI on Android is dead unless there are 3rd-party libraries or classes that can be somehow incorporated.

Can anyone clarify or suggest an alternative approach to interactive/real-time musical apps? The JetPlayer apps look like they focus on interacting with a soundtrack, which is not really what I’m after…

Thanks,
Dan Ash
White Plains, NY

MIDI is supported through the JetPlayer class, as you suspected, and not through javax.*. Here are some references that may be useful:

http://d.android.com/guide/topics/media/index.html
http://d.android.com/reference/android/media/Je…
http://www.sonivoxrocks.com/googleohawavetables…
http://www.sonivoxrocks.com/google.html
http://www.sonivoxrocks.com/jet.html
http://d.android.com/guide/topics/media/jet/jet…
http://d.android.com/resources/samples/JetBoy/i…

Looks like you might be able to play .mid files with MediaPlayer too, but I haven’t tried it:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?...

Thanks, Ed. I’ll get started reviewing the links you posted.

I’m enjoying the book.

Dan Ash
White Plains, NY

Glad to hear it. If you have time, I’d appreciate it if you could write a book review on Amazon (or mark some that are already there as useful).