Hi, Happy New Year, first of all ;) I'm a complete newby at this, but full of enthusiasm and drive to turn my idea into an app. I'm creating for Android, with Eclipse. So, I am playing around with "my First App" just to get comfortable with BT, Eclipse and ADT. Also, of course, to find out what's already available and what functionalities I might need for my app aren't yet. Now, here's my first question on this forum: I would like to add a little "play sound" button to a Custom HTML screen that actually plays sound when tapped. Is there a way to do this? I don't want it streaming since it needs to be played offline as well. Hope anyone can enlighten me. Thx in advance!

Welcome to buzztouch. I would try these codes, and place them in the source part of your html screen. <audio controls height="100" width="100"> <source src="horse.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> <source src="horse.ogg" type="audio/ogg"> <embed height="50" width="100" src="horse.mp3"> </audio> or <embed height="50" width="100" src="horse.mp3"> and also where src=" " you can put a link to an mp3 file. Jack

Hey Jack, Thx for your swift reply! Much appreciated. In line with your explanation I placed the following in my html screen (in code mode: <audio controls height="100" width="100"> <source src="http://soundjax.com/reddo/86435%5ETrumpet2.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> <source src="http://soundjax.com/reddo/86435%5ETrumpet2.ogg" type="audio/ogg"> <embed height="50" width="100" src="http://soundjax.com/reddo/86435%5ETrumpet2.mp3"> </audio> (The .ogg file doesn't really exist but I thought that would matter since I'm using Nexus 1 emulator.) But, nothing showed up on the specific screen in my app when I ran it. Am I stupid thinking a "play sound" button would magically appear on my screen? Or did I do something wrong? Thx again. Robin

Hmm thats weird, try pasting this one. <audio controls height="100" width="100"> <source src="http://soundjax.com/reddo/86435%5ETrumpet2.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> <embed height="50" width="100" src="http://soundjax.com/reddo/86435%5ETrumpet2.mp3"> </audio> it already has your url in it.

Thx again (you're fast!). I tried it, but nope. It shows up in no-code mode but not in my emulator. Could it be Nexus 1 (google 2.2 API 8) doesn't support this? That's the emulator I'm running it in. I think not, but then again, I don't know much about all this yet. So help would again be appreciated ;) Robin

Then it must have something to do with the emulator. I would try running this on an actual device to see if this works, i would recommend a device that is running android 4.0 or higher.

Cheers. I will do that. Tomorrow. I'll let you know. Robin

Great! Best of luck.

Hey Jack, I downloaded the apk on my own Galaxy and it worked like a charm. Thanks for the advice. Strange that the emulator doesn't display it correctly... Should I mention that somewhere so it can be fixed? Regards, Robin

I don't think so, but I'm glad its working! Jack

All ready to really start working on my first project ;)