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"It knows how to navigate the arcane APIs and perform the right incantations."

So happy to find this! I've done some low level audio work with iOS and it is not pretty.

The APIs may be complex, but at least, unlike Android, iOS gives you enough control to do interesting things with real-time audio. This is the #1 reason I haven't tried writing anything for Android yet.

Yeah, I totally agree on that. I looked into it and there's no way I could port my synthesizer app to android without some big philosophical sacrifices.

This ticket has been open since 2009... http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434

You said it!

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