Trying to run musical instruments, but finding the latency to be problematic. I thought it was just the version of Android you were running, but according to the text I've pasted below, the improvements in JB 4.2 can only be realized if your smartphone has the hardware to take advantage of it.
I've been looking for hours to find which devices can deliver on low latency performance. Any idea if the S2 is one of those devices? If so, that would motivate me to root the phone and upgrade to 4.2 or 4.3.
Low-latency audio
Android 4.2 improves support for low-latency audio playback, starting from the improvements made in Android 4.1 release for audio output latency using OpenSL ES, Soundpool and tone generator APIs. These improvements depend on hardware support ? devices that offer these low-latency audio features can advertise their support to apps through a hardware feature constant. New AudioManager APIs are provided to query the native audio sample rate and buffer size, for use on devices which claim this feature.
I've been looking for hours to find which devices can deliver on low latency performance. Any idea if the S2 is one of those devices? If so, that would motivate me to root the phone and upgrade to 4.2 or 4.3.
Low-latency audio
Android 4.2 improves support for low-latency audio playback, starting from the improvements made in Android 4.1 release for audio output latency using OpenSL ES, Soundpool and tone generator APIs. These improvements depend on hardware support ? devices that offer these low-latency audio features can advertise their support to apps through a hardware feature constant. New AudioManager APIs are provided to query the native audio sample rate and buffer size, for use on devices which claim this feature.
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