Oboe

Oboe is currently in developer preview.

Oboe is a C++ library which makes it easy to build high-performance audio apps on Android. It was created primarily to allow developers to target a simplified API that works across multiple API levels back to API level 16 (Jelly Bean).

Get started with Oboe here.

Projects using Oboe

• JUCE middleware framework
• CSound for Android. App, Source

Want your project added? File an issue with your project name and URL.

Features

• Compatible with API 16 onwards - runs on 99% of Android devices
• Chooses the audio API (OpenSL ES on API 16+ or AAudio on API 27+) which will give the best audio performance on the target Android device
• Automatic latency tuning
• Modern C++ allowing you to write clean, elegant code

Requirements

To build Oboe you will need the Android NDK r15 or above

Documentation

• Getting Started Guide
• Full Guide to Oboe

Sample code

Sample apps can be found in the samples directory. Also check out the Rhythm Game codelab.

Third party sample code

• Ableton Link integration demo (author: jbloit)

Contributing

We would love to receive your pull requests. Before we can though, please read the contributing guidelines.

Version history

• 18th January 2018 - v0.10 Add support for input (recording) streams
• 18th October 2017 - v0.9 Initial developer preview