From the developer's perspective, media streaming is comprised of two tasks, transfer data and render data. Application developers usually concentrate more on transfer data than render data, because codec and media renderer are often available already.
On android, streaming audio is somewhat easier than video for android provides a more friendly api to render audio data in small chunks. No matter what is our transfer mechanism, rtp, raw udp or raw file reading, we need to feed chunks we received to renderer. The AudioTrack.writefunction enables us doing so.
AudioTrack object runs in two modes, static or stream. In static mode, we write the whole audio file to audio hardware. In stream mode, audio data are written in small chunks. The static mode is more efficient because it doesn't have the overhead of copying data from java layer to native layer, but it's not suitable if the audio file is too big to fit it memory. It's important to notice that we call play at different time in two modes. In static mode, we must call write first, then call play. Otherwise, the AudioTrack raises an exception complains that AudioTrack object isn't properly initialized. In stream mode, they are called in reverse order. Under the hood, static and stream mode determine the memory model. In static mode, audio data are passed to renderer via shared memory. Thus static mode is more efficient.
From birds eye view, the architecture of an typical audio streaming application is:
Since our application and audioflinger are separate processes, so after our application has written data to audioflinger, the playback will not stop even if our application exits.
AudioTrack only supports PCM (a.k.a G.711) audio format. In other words, we can't stream mp3 audio directly. We have to deal with decoding ourselves, and feed decoded data to AudioTrack.
Sample
http://code.google.com/p/rxwen-blog-stuff/source/browse/trunk/android/streaming_audio/
For demonstration purpose, this sample chooses a very simple transfer mechanism. It reads data from a wav file on disk in chunks, but we can consider it as if the data were delivered from a media server on network. The idea is similar.
Update: Check this post for a more concrete example.
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