How to play an android notification sound

If anyone's still looking for a solution to this, I found an answer at How to play ringtone/alarm sound in Android

try {    Uri notification = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);    Ringtone r = RingtoneManager.getRingtone(getApplicationContext(), notification);    r.play();} catch (Exception e) {    e.printStackTrace();}

You can change TYPE_NOTIFICATION to TYPE_ALARM, but you'll want to keep track of your Ringtone r in order to stop playing it... say, when the user clicks a button or something.

You can now do this by including the sound when building a notification rather than calling the sound separately.

//Define Notification ManagerNotificationManager notificationManager = (NotificationManager) context.getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);//Define sound URIUri soundUri = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(getApplicationContext())        .setSmallIcon(icon)        .setContentTitle(title)        .setContentText(message)        .setSound(soundUri); //This sets the sound to play//Display notificationnotificationManager.notify(0, mBuilder.build());

If you want a default notification sound to be played, then you can use setDefaults(int) method of NotificationCompat.Builder class:

NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder =        new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_notification)                .setContentTitle(getString(R.string.app_name))                .setContentText(someText)                .setDefaults(Notification.DEFAULT_SOUND)                .setAutoCancel(true);

I believe that's the easiest way to accomplish your task.