Problem with sound on some Android versions with 64-bit apps

Hello everyone,

It seems Monkey2 needs to be updated as it comes to sound on Android platform (64-bit).

On my one of my relative's Honor 6X with Android 7.0 the following program compiled to Android 64-bit doesn't start on his phone:


Namespace myapp


#Import "<std>"

#Import "<mojo>"


#Import "snd/music.ogg"

Using std..

Using mojo..


Class MyWindow Extends Window


Field angle:Float

Field x:Float

Field y:Float

Field music:Sound

Field ch:Channel



Method New( title:String="Simple mojo app",width:Int=640,height:Int=480,flags:WindowFlags=Null )


Super.New( title,width,height,flags )

music = Sound.Load("asset::music.ogg")

ch = music.Play(True)

End


Method OnRender( canvas:Canvas ) Override


App.RequestRender()


angle = angle + (Pi / 180.0) * 0.5


x = 640 / 2 + Cos(angle) * 200

y = 480 / 2 + Sin(angle) * 160


canvas.DrawCircle(x,y,20)


End

End



The code was compiled with Monkey2 v2018.09.

It seems it has something to do with the sound.

There seems to be other kind of problems with apps using sound too. On one of my friend's phone one of my games started, but mystically crashed while the app was using music and sound effects. Her Android version is 8. The same game didn't start at all on Honor 6x with Android 7.0. When I removed the sounds from the game, the game worked fine on Android 8.

As long as the game was 32-bit it worked fine on Android 8, after 64-bit version it crashed mystically.

On my Samsung Galaxy A6+ with Android 9 there seems to be no problems with Monkey2's sound with 64-bit compilations.

Apps using sound on Android seemed to work fine as long as they were 32-bit.


Anyone else noticed any problems on 64-bit Android platform using sound?