Set ringtone based on position of selected list view item

Question

I'm trying to save the selected sound as a ringtone/notification sound based on the position of the selected list view item but I'm having serious issues with finding relative tutorials (if any) for this. Below is my code so far but I want to achieve this in the simplest way/as less lines of code as possible hence for the sake of simplicity, I have used 1 context menu. Ideally

public void function1(int id){

    }

is where the code would go for setting the ringtone and

public void function2(int id){

    }

is where the code would go for setting the notification sound.

E.g. (trying to achieve this when setting a ringtone) Click & hold "chimes" list item > Context menu appears > Select "Set as Ringtone" context menu item > 'Phone ringtone' window appears (with "chimes" as one of the available options) > User clicks OK or Cancel > If the user clicks OK, return back to my app and show a toast notification ("Ringtone saved") OR If the user clicks Cancel, return back to my app and show a toast notification ("Ringtone not saved").

All help will be highly appreciated.

import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.view.ContextMenu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;


public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

    private ListView mainList;
    private MediaPlayer mp;
    private final String[] listContent = {
            "chimes", "chord", "ding", "notify", 
            "recycle", "ringin", "ring out","tada"
    };

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        mp = new MediaPlayer();
        mainList = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.main_listView);
        ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, listContent);
        mainList.setAdapter(adapter);
        registerForContextMenu(this.mainList);
    }


    @Override
    public void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu, View v,ContextMenu.ContextMenuInfo menuInfo) {
        super.onCreateContextMenu(menu, v, menuInfo);
        menu.add(0, v.getId(), 0, "Action 1");
        menu.add(0, v.getId(), 0, "Action 2");
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onContextItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        if (item.getTitle().equals("Action 1")){
            function1(item.getItemId());
        } else if (item.getTitle().equals("Action 2")){
            function2(item.getItemId());
        } else {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

    public void function1(int id){

    }
    public void function2(int id){

    }
}

Answer 1

In order to set the ringtone or notification sound you use the RingToneManager.

Specifically you use

RingtoneManager.setActualDefaultRingtoneUri(getApplicationContext(), RingtoneManager.TYPE_RINGTONE, newUri);

for setting default ringtone. And you use

RingtoneManager.setActualDefaultRingtoneUri(getApplicationContext(), RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION, newUri);

for setting default notification sound.

This needs a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) which is a not an integer or ItemId like the one your functions currently take.

From your sample code, there are a few possible options that could be taken.

The first is to pass in the title of the Ringtone into the function, as a string instead of the ID, and then call RingtoneManager.getCursor() in order to get a list of all possible ringtones and check each one to see if the titles match and if they do then you set the URI for the matching title.

The second is to make your list of choices based on the cursor of all available ringtones and the pass in the id, and get the URI using RingtoneManager.getRingtoneUri(id). One way of doing this is detailed at Using SimpleCursorAdapter to Display Ringtones from RingtoneManager in Android Using ListView Templates

The third is to use ACTION_RINGTONE_PICKER which has a relevant StackOverflow Question.

Answer 2

Sorry, this could have been a comment. I dont have enough permission to comment right now. And do let me know how this works out for u...

To get the ringtone picker,

Intent intent = new Intent(RingtoneManager.ACTION_RINGTONE_PICKER);
intent.putExtra(RingtoneManager.EXTRA_RINGTONE_SHOW_SILENT, false);
intent.putExtra(RingtoneManager.EXTRA_RINGTONE_SHOW_DEFAULT, true);
intent.putExtra(RingtoneManager.EXTRA_RINGTONE_TYPE,RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
startActivityForResult(intent,999);

Now override the onActivityResult() in the activity/fragment.

@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
    if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK
            && requestCode == 999)
        if (data.getParcelableExtra(RingtoneManager.EXTRA_RINGTONE_PICKED_URI) != null) {
            Uri uri = data.getParcelableExtra(RingtoneManager.EXTRA_RINGTONE_PICKED_URI);
            if (uri != null) {
                RingtoneManager.setActualDefaultRingtoneUri(getApplicationContext(), RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION, uri);
            }
        }
    }
}

Hope this works.... (And Upvote if useful)...