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

This will return you the title and uri of all the ringtones available. Do with them what you wish!

public Map<String, String> getNotifications() {
    RingtoneManager manager = new RingtoneManager(this);
    manager.setType(RingtoneManager.TYPE_RINGTONE);
    Cursor cursor = manager.getCursor();

    Map<String, String> list = new HashMap<>();
    while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
        String notificationTitle = cursor.getString(RingtoneManager.TITLE_COLUMN_INDEX);
        String notificationUri = cursor.getString(RingtoneManager.URI_COLUMN_INDEX) + "/" + cursor.getString(RingtoneManager.ID_COLUMN_INDEX);

        list.put(notificationTitle, notificationUri);
    }

    return list;
}

Answer 2

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;