Play Audio in Xamarin Forms using Xam.Plugin.SimpleAudioPlayer

A light-weight and easy to use cross-platform audio player for Windows UWP, Xamarin.iOS, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Mac, Xamarin.tvOS and Xamarin.Forms. Load wav and mp3 files from any location including a shared library. Works well for sound effects or music. Multiple instances can be instantiated to play multiple sources simultaniously.

Install-Package Xam.Plugin.SimpleAudioPlayer -Version 1.1.0

Dependencies

·         .NETPlatform 5.0

• No dependencies.

·         .NETStandard 1.0

• NETStandard.Library (>= 1.6.1)

·         MonoAndroid 1.0

• No dependencies.

·         Tizen 0.0

• No dependencies.

·         UAP 0.0

• No dependencies.

·         Xamarin.iOS 1.0

• No dependencies.

·         Xamarin.Mac 2.0

• No dependencies.

·         Xamarin.TVOS 0.0

• No dependencies.

Full Details: https://github.com/adrianstevens/Xamarin-Plugins

API Usage

Call CrossSimpleAudioPlayer.Current from any project or PCL to gain access to APIs

Properties

Duration: length of audio in seconds
CurrentPosition: current playpack position in seconds
Volume: volume of audio between 0 and 1
Balance: balance between left and right as as double, -1 is left only, 0 is both, +1 is right only
IsPlaying: is the audio currently playing
CanSeek: can the playback position be updated

Methods

Load(Stream audioStream): load a compatible (wav, mp3, etc) audio from a stream
Load(string fileName): load a compatible audio file stored in the executing platform project
Play(): play the currently loaded audio
Stop(): stop playback and reset current position to start (0)
Pause(): pause playback (use Play() to resume)
Seek(double position): seek to a specific location in the audio (in seconds)

Please keep your mp3 files in both the platforms as below image

Design Page Xaml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"

             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"

             x:Class="SAPlayerSample.PCLAudioPage"

             Title="Shared Audio">

  <StackLayout Orientation="Vertical" Spacing="5" Margin="10">

    <Label Text="Postion:" />

    <Slider x:Name="sliderPosition" />

    <Label x:Name="lblPosition" />

    <Button x:Name="btnPlay" Text="Play" BorderColor="Green" />

    <Button x:Name="btnPause" Text="Pause" BorderColor="Blue" />

    <Button x:Name="btnStop" Text="Stop" BorderColor="Red" />

    <Label Text="Volume:" />

    <Slider x:Name="sliderVolume" Minimum="0" Maximum="1"/>

  </StackLayout>

</ContentPage>

Code Behind:

using Plugin.SimpleAudioPlayer.Abstractions;

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.IO;

using System.Reflection;

using Xamarin.Forms;

namespace SAPlayerSample

{

    public partial class PCLAudioPage : ContentPage

    {

        ISimpleAudioPlayer player;

        public PCLAudioPage()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

            var stream = GetStreamFromFile("Diminished.mp3");

            player = Plugin.SimpleAudioPlayer.CrossSimpleAudioPlayer.CreateSimpleAudioPlayer();

            player.Load(stream);

            InitControls();

        }

        void InitControls ()

        {

            sliderVolume.Value = player.Volume;

            btnPlay.Clicked += BtnPlayClicked;

            btnPause.Clicked += BtnPauseClicked;

            btnStop.Clicked += BtnStopClicked;

            sliderVolume.ValueChanged += SliderVolumeValueChanged;

            sliderPosition.ValueChanged += SliderPostionValueChanged;

 

        }

        private void SliderPostionValueChanged(object sender, ValueChangedEventArgs e)

        {

            if (sliderPosition.Value != player.Duration)

                player.Seek(sliderPosition.Value);       

        }

        private void SliderVolumeValueChanged(object sender, ValueChangedEventArgs e)

        {

            player.Volume = sliderVolume.Value;

        }

        private void BtnStopClicked(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            player.Stop();

        }

        private void BtnPauseClicked(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            player.Pause();

        }

        private void BtnPlayClicked(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            player.Play();

                       

            sliderPosition.Maximum = player.Duration;

            sliderPosition.IsEnabled = player.CanSeek;

            Device.StartTimer(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.5), UpdatePosition);

        }

        bool UpdatePosition ()

        {

            lblPosition.Text = $"Postion: {(int)player.CurrentPosition} / {(int)player.Duration}";

            sliderPosition.ValueChanged -= SliderPostionValueChanged;

            sliderPosition.Value = player.CurrentPosition;

            sliderPosition.ValueChanged += SliderPostionValueChanged;

            return player.IsPlaying;

        }

        Stream GetStreamFromFile(string filename)

        {

            var assembly = typeof(App).GetTypeInfo().Assembly;

            var stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("SAPlayerSample." + filename);

            return stream;

        }

    }

}

Get Full Source Code :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n0D622ZYdSoDv4tBStdPZndPXbzyPyGa