Playing modules (IT/XM/S3M/MOD) with AndModPlug

Back in 2001, Olivier Lapicque created libmodplug; a public domain music player library for various module formats such as IT, XM, S3M and MOD files.

In 2002 Konstanty Bialkowski became the maintainer of the project.

In 2011 Patrick Casey from Peculiar Games developed AndModPlug; an Android port of the library, with the addition of some extra game-related functions, such as pattern switching and tempo changing.

In this help-file, I'll show you how to use AndModPlug in your Android game project.

Let's get started

First thing you need, is the library itself. Download here.

Patrick: I'm hoping it'll be ok for IndieGameMusic.com to host its own copy of the library?

Next, copy files into directories of your Android project.

Pattern switching

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Tempo changing

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Pausing / Resuming playback

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Stopping the player

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