Playing sounds in Android

Copy your sounds in raw/ folder in res/ . If you do not have raw/ folder then make one by right clicking on res/ folder, click on Android resource directory and then giving directory name as raw and selecting resource type as raw and then copy your sounds in this directory.

The following code starts a sound in onCreate() method and handle its lifecycle:

• Starts the sound on onCreate().
• Pause the Sound on onPause() and getting its seek position.
• Playing the sound on onResume() from where it was stopped at onPause().
• Release the resources associated with MediaPlayer object on onDestroy().

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

private static MediaPlayer mp ;
private int musicSeekLength = 0;
@Override
protected void onCreate() {
startSound();
}

@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    mp.seekTo(musicSeekLength);
    mp.start();
}
@Override
protected void onPause() {
    super.onPause();
    mp.pause();
    musicSeekLength = mp.getCurrentPosition();
}
/*
 *This method initialise the MediaPlayer object and,
 * start the sound associated with it
 */
private void startSound() {
    try {
        mp = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.smells_like_teen_spirit);
        //Pass true if you want the sound to Loop
              mp.setLooping(false);
        mp.start();
        mp.setOnCompletionListener(new MediaPlayer.OnCompletionListener() {
            public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
               // Sound Completed
            }
        });

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
@Override
protected void onDestroy() {
    super.onDestroy();
    // Releases resources associated with this MediaPlayer object
    mp.release();
}
}