you gain some experience withthe media player apis, but you may have just copy and pastedthe lines of code that you needed. and you probably still have somequestions about how exactly it all works. so, let's talk about that now.
Android media player, so, the media player is a complex class,because it can play both audio and video files. so, these media files canbe bundled with the app, just like how the song file wasincluded in our simple app earlier, or
they can be streamed from the internet. to give you an idea of how muchthe media player is capable of, here's the list of all the differentfile types that the media player on android can support. so, you see here we can have mp3, aac,wav files, and much, much, much more. by the way, the file types are justdifferent approaches to storing audio in a digital form, all while minimizingfile size and maintaining sound quality. so, this is similar to how thereare different image types such as jpeg, gif, png and etc.
so, in the case of the myeq app, we'regoing to provide you with mp3 files of andrea speaking the words aloud. this way, you can includethe files within the app and they don't need to bestreamed from the internet.
