Fails on android after a few calls

[ajmilford]

In my shared code I have:
called in the constructor of a view (actually a Rg.Plugins.Popup.Pages.PopupPage view):
Stream beepStream = UIBits.ImageFactory.Instance.GetAsset("UIBits.Assets.beep.mp3");
audioPlayer = CrossSimpleAudioPlayer.CreateSimpleAudioPlayer();
audioPlayer.Load(beepStream);
then later in response to an action:
audioPlayer.Play();

this initially works fine.
But after maybe a dozen times (I haven't actually counted) the sound stops being produced. In the application output I see:

[MediaPlayer-JNI] start
[MediaPlayerNative] start
[MediaPlayerNative] message received msg=300, ext1=0, ext2=0
[MediaPlayerNative] Received SEC_MM_PLAYER_CONTEXT_AWARE
[MediaPlayerNative] callback application
[MediaPlayerNative] back from callback
[MediaPlayerNative] message received msg=100, ext1=1, ext2=-19
[MediaPlayerNative] error (1, -19)
[MediaPlayerNative] callback application
[MediaPlayerNative] back from callback
[MediaPlayer] Error (1,-19)

do I need to do something else when the sound is played to release resources or something? or is this a bug?

[adrianstevens]

Can you provide more details? What device are you using? What version of Android? And how frequently are you playing the sound?

[ajmilford]

I fixed the issue by making 'audioPlayer' a static and modifying the constructor to:

if (audioPlayer != null)
return;
Stream beepStream = UIBits.ImageFactory.Instance.GetAsset("UIBits.Assets.beep.mp3");
audioPlayer = CrossSimpleAudioPlayer.CreateSimpleAudioPlayer();
audioPlayer.Load(beepStream);

So 'audioPlayer' is only created once.

It is running on a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. Not called particularly frequently - minimum time between calls would be 10s.
Android V8.0.0.