Play default iOS system sound with Monotouch

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I want to play the keyboard 'click' sound when pressing buttons in my app. How do I access this sound clip with Monotouch? I don't want to pass my own sound using AudioToolbox SystemSound.FromFile(). So far all my searches have led to this solution or Objective-C code using 'AudioServicesCreateSystemSoundID' which I'm having trouble translating to C#.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7831671/playing-system-sound-without-importing-your-own — Erik Kerber, Nov 25 '13 at 14:21
The API's are 1:1. The only difference will be syntactical, I promise. — Erik Kerber, Nov 25 '13 at 16:47

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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Well, that's not a 1:1 port from the code in Playing system sound without importing your own, but this should do the work:

var path = NSBundle.FromIdentifier ("com.Apple.UIKit").PathForResource ("Tock", "aiff");
using (var systemSound = new SystemSound (NSUrl.FromFilename (path))) {
    systemSound.PlaySystemSound ();
}

SystemSound is defined in MonoTouch.AudioToolbox. Make sure to also look at MonoTouch Play System Sound and MonoTouch: Playing sound

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Nov 26 '13 at 11:31

Stephane Delcroix

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Worked perfect for me, but had to use `"com.apple.UIKit"` instead of `"com.Apple.UIKit"` – user1829325 Jan 11 '14 at 09:13

Ursin Brunner · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-07T06:29:54.050

With iOS 7.0 and higher, Stephane Delcroix answer seems not to work anymore...

But you can easily find the path to all the sounds in this nice project: https://github.com/TUNER88/iOSSystemSoundsLibrary

Here is the code I used und iOS 7 (take care, it might not work with the simulator!)

    private const string NotificationSoundPath = @"/System/Library/Audio/UISounds/New/Fanfare.caf";

    public static void TriggerSoundAndViber()
    {
        SystemSound notificationSound = SystemSound.FromFile(NotificationSoundPath);
        notificationSound.AddSystemSoundCompletion(SystemSound.Vibrate.PlaySystemSound);
        notificationSound.PlaySystemSound();
    }

Also the using() construct in the answer above caused trouble in my case... it seems like it released the sound too early, I only can hear it (and even then not complete with viber) with a breakpoint on PlaySystemSound().

Play default iOS system sound with Monotouch

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