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Beatbox

Android

If your mouth can only make one sound at a time, Beatbox has your back. It’s a musical toy — a soundboard and instrument where you record a sound into each of eight colored tiles and play them back. The only limit is what you can come up with.

A person holding a phone while using the app

Features

  • Record up to eight sounds and play them back.
  • Import a sound or pick one from a library.
  • Press and hold to loop a sound.
  • Record and share your mix.
  • Save creations and reload them later.
Three screenshots of the app interface

Written in Java for Android, the real challenge was latency: a tile has to fire the instant you press it, or the whole thing feels broken. A side project to learn Android development.