The High Quality Multimedia Services

The multimedia services in the Android operating system are of fine quality and developed in a sophisticated manner. The multimedia services are provided by the media framework which is a part of the component Libraries in the structure of the Android OS.

There are in built encoding and decoding features available in the Android platform. These features can encode and decode various audio, video and image files of different media formats. Also, Android OS provides access to audio and video files from many data sources. The audio or video files present in any application’s resources can be played using the multimedia services in Android OS. To perform this task, the MediaPlayer class is used by the OS. You can even play media from files present in the memory of your mobile device and also from a network connection. The multimedia services include another aspect that facilitates you to record audio and video if it is supported by your mobile handheld. For this purpose, the MediaRecorder class is used by the OS. The video formats that are supported by Android OS are H.263, H.264 and MPEG-4. The OS also supports an array of audio formats such as AAC, PCM / WAVE, MP3, MIDI, HE and AMR. The image formats in which a picture or a photograph can be stored are PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP.

The Android OS provides another multimedia service called as the multimedia messaging service (MMS). Using the MMS service, you can send and receive pictures, ringtones, songs and many more things in a message format. You just have to select any song or photograph that you want to share with your friends or family and send it as a message. This is a very useful multimedia service in the Android platform for all the users.

The audio, video as well as the graphic multimedia present in the Android OS surely makes the user’s experience an enjoyable one.