[Csnd-dev] New beta release of the Csound for Android app

You can download the .apk from GitHub here (
https://github.com/gogins/csound-android/releases/tag/v48beta) and copy it
to your device, then install it.

The reason for this release is that I just upgraded my smartphone to a
Samsung S24 Ultra and found that the Csound for Android app would no longer
run HTML pieces, although all the other examples in the app seemed to play
properly.

After researching the problem, I decided to rewrite the HTML running part
of the app to use a localhost Web server embedded in the app, with a
user-configurable port and Web directory. This seems to handle the
increasing restrictions that Google has placed on Android's use of the
device filesystem, and in particular, on the ability of the WebView
component to load resources from the device filesystem.

The app now seems to play HTML pieces without problems. I have tested this
on my phone and on emulators for various versions of Android. I do not know
how far back compatibility with earlier versions of Android goes. I would
appreciate any feedback on this or on any other issue or suggestion.

In the not too distant future I may be able, with these changes, to get the
Csound for Android app back into the Google Play Store.

Regards,
Mike

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Michael Gogins
Irreducible Productions
http://michaelgogins.tumblr.com
Michael dot Gogins at gmail dot com