2. MediaPlayer mediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
3. assetManager = this.getAssets();
4. 
   
5. public void buildMediaPlayer()
6.  {
7.    try {
8.      AssetFileDescriptor fd = assetManager.openFd("songTitle.ogg");
9.      mediaPlayer.setDataSource(fd.getFileDescriptor(), fd.getStartOffset(), fd.getLength());
10.      mediaPlayer.prepare();
11.   } 
12. catch (IOException e) {
13.     print("OOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS");
14.     e.printStackTrace(); 
15.   }
16.  }

and although it builds properly the program will not open on the phone because of a null pointer error.

interestingly it doesnt pint OOOOPPPPPSSS in the terminal, and my song file is right there in the data folder waiting to get copied over to /assets. 

So ive read up a bit on alternate ways to declare the datasource using files stored in res/raw, but i dont know enough to figure out how to set that up easily.

anyone got any ideas?

Okay as far as I know i have properly installed the sdk ( ive got 2.3.3 and 3.0 was trying stuff out)

and I am SOOO in android mode

but im currently working on a school project and being quite the try-hard by working on an android app, and it has become time for sound

so literally i have everything ive written so far running great on my phone but now im going through sound work and when typing things like import android.media.SoundPool; it says No library found for android.media. I havnt had to do something like this before in the project. it feels like theres something stupid ive missed but i have spent the last three hours searching. Ergo I beg... alot