Getting a list of available Ringtones in Android

Question

I\'ve seen plenty of examples of how to set a default ringtone, but what I\'m more interested in is being able populate a drop down box list filled with the available ringtones

Answer 1

RingtoneManager is what you are looking for. You just need to use setType to set TYPE_RINGTONE and then iterate over the Cursor provided by getCursor.

This is a working example of an hypothetical method that returns an array of URIs, with the only slight difference that it's looking for alarms instead of ringtones:

RingtoneManager ringtoneMgr = new RingtoneManager(this);
ringtoneMgr.setType(RingtoneManager.TYPE_ALARM);
Cursor alarmsCursor = ringtoneMgr.getCursor();
int alarmsCount = alarmsCursor.getCount();
if (alarmsCount == 0 && !alarmsCursor.moveToFirst()) {
    return null;
}
Uri[] alarms = new Uri[alarmsCount];
while(!alarmsCursor.isAfterLast() && alarmsCursor.moveToNext()) {
    int currentPosition = alarmsCursor.getPosition();
    alarms[currentPosition] = ringtoneMgr.getRingtoneUri(currentPosition);
}
alarmsCursor.close();
return alarms;