I want to detect the volume of audio from the microphone in my application,
like in the application Steamy Window, where you have to blow to
make the window steamy again.

Can anyone help me?

thx in advance

you may find the read() method of AudioRecord useful for you. An AudioRecord records the sound into a buffer, and read() reads from the buffer. you can check whether the buffer contains high values, and hence, high volume sound.
hope this will help!

Hey maxpayne

Could you provide a little more detail on how this is done?

I am interested in doing the same thing, but am completely new to the 'Audio' area of Android.

Thanks in advance
Neil

Does anybody know how to do this?

I would also be interested in how this is acheived

I've not done this on an android (new to android development and this forum actually), but I wanted to share my idea of how I'd attain volumes from the microphone(s).

Various links for gathering audio:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topi ... index.html
and
http://developer.android.com/reference/ ... order.html
and
http://developer.android.com/reference/ ... ecord.html

Concerning volume, I guess you can pick some levels for arbitrary volume granularity as may be inferred from the first few paragraphs here:
http://www.ypass.net/blog/2010/01/pcm-a ... e-control/

So you could have some algorithm that over a certain amount of time would take the absolute values (remove negatives), get the average of those numbers (with or without outliers, I don't know) then compare them to some volume cutoff values you have selected. This could run in the background and have overlapping samples over time.

You may find going with the median is better for your purposes.

Alternatively, you could have it return a positive verification once a certain level has been reached in the raw pcm values (probably absolute values unless you're particular).