public final class SoundPool

Plays many short, overlapping sound effects with low latency.

A SoundPool is built for game audio: gunshots, coins, footsteps – sounds that must trigger instantly and play several at once. Load each clip once with #load(String) and trigger it repeatedly with #play(SoundEffect); the pool mixes up to #getMaxStreams() voices simultaneously and drops the request (returning -1) rather than blocking when that limit is reached.

SoundPool sfx = SoundPool.create(8);
SoundEffect coin = sfx.load("/coin.wav");
// ... in the game loop:
coin.play();

On platforms with a purpose built low latency audio engine (Android, iOS, the desktop simulator and the browser) the pool uses it directly, supporting per play volume, stereo pan and pitch/rate. Where no native backend exists it falls back to a com.codename1.media.MediaManager based pool that still works everywhere but has higher latency and ignores pan and rate – #isNativeAccelerated() reports which path is in use.