MIDI on Android: Java and/or AIR libraries

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Published on 2010-05-26T15:09:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 15:51 UTC
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I've been contemplating (re)building an app on iPad for some time, where I would use objective-C and DSMI to send MIDI signals to a host computer. This is not bad (I mean, except for actually writing the app).

Now I'm contemplating perhaps developing the app for Android tablets (TBA).

In Java, what options are available for MIDI message communication? I'm quite familiar with javax.sound.midi, but then I would need a virtual MIDI port to send messages to the host.

On the other hand, if the app were done in Adobe AIR, what options would I have available for communicating with MIDI?

Obviously another option is to send/receive messages over a TCP/IP socket to a Java host, and talk that way, but it sounds a tad cumbersome... or perhaps not? DSMI does use a host program, after all.

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