Audio doesn't work on Android 4.2

I need to build apk for an old Android 4.2, I managed to do this by changing "android-minSdkVersion" to 17 and building with Cordova CLI.

When I'm testing it on an old phone, everything works except for sounds and music. Logcat shows errors like this:

I'm guessing .ogg format is unsupported, or maybe it's looking for the media file in wrong location..

Does anyone knows how to fix this? Is it possible to use wav or mp3 without conversion to ogg somehow? Will appreciate any advice.

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EDIT: Seems like some issue with file access or location. Same error happens when I try playing mp3 or any other file.

The issue is related to wkwebview and the way it accesses app resources. I can play any sound from internal phone storage or sdcard, but not from the apk.

I sort of found a solution, it's not great but it works - I can encode sounds in base64 strings and play them using Base64 Audio plugin. I'll have to remove music because the files will be huge, but at least I'll have short sounds in my game.

Asmodean Oh, I actually haven't tested on 4.2, my phone has version 4.4.4

Are you saying it won't work on 4.2?

Do you know if I can build an app with crosswalk plugin? I can export my project from an older version of C2, but I'm getting this error when trying to build with Cordova:

Phonegap build also fails with some similar error about plugins.

Before Android 4.4 it doesn't used the chrome engine and it didn't worked very well and it was a part of Android until Android 5. So all WebView versions before 5 are completely outdated.

I don't know if PhoneGap still supports crosswalk. I used Intel_XDK that time but that doesn't exist anymore. Maybe with Cordova CLI you can compile to crosswalk.

Asmodean Thanks for the info!

I managed to build it with Phonegap, had to update targetSDKversion. The apk size is enormous! But I guess it's expected with crosswalk. Tested on x86 emulator with Android 4.2 and audio works, but it crashes on arm emulator...

Yeah, the app launches and then closes after a few seconds. I don't know if it's an emulator issue, the ARM emulator is terribly slow.

x86 build works in x86 emulator, and ARM build works on my Android 4.4 phone, so I guess it's a good sign. I'll try to find someone with an Android 4.2 device to test.