AudioEngine

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public class AudioEngine

                    
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Provides control over the Rive audio engine (powered by https://miniaud.io/).
The audio engine uses reference counting to manage its start/stop state. Multiple "stakeholders" (e.g., CommandQueue instances and the legacy WorkerImpl) can acquire/release references independently. The engine is started when the ref count becomes 0 and stopped when it reaches 0.
This ultimately allows pausing audio (stopping the engine's playback) and resuming it (starting it again) when the app is backgrounded. We ref count so that a stakeholder, e.g. a command queue, can be destroyed without stopping the audio engine for other instances that may be playing.
Audio playback and miniaudio may be excluded from the build via a Gradle property, in which case these methods will no-op.

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`public final static AudioEngine`	`INSTANCE`

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`final Unit`	`acquire()`	Acquire a reference to the audio engine, incrementing the ref count.
`final Unit`	`release()`	Release a reference to the audio engine, decrementing the ref count.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Method Detail
  - acquire
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 final Unit acquire()
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    Acquire a reference to the audio engine, incrementing the ref count. If the ref count goes from 0 to 1, the audio engine is started.
  - release
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 final Unit release()
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    Release a reference to the audio engine, decrementing the ref count. If the ref count goes from 1 to 0, the audio engine is stopped.