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Oboe is a C++ library that makes it easy to build high-performance audio apps on Android.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 3 stories, 9 comments · first 2018-01-04 · latest 2026-03-31

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  1. You mean OpenSL ES? Is anyone actually using that on desktop? On Android there's https://github.com/google/oboe . While Mesa has OpenGL ES it wasn't always available (for example not all drivers are using Mesa).
    comment by jhasse · 2026-03-31 · in Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
  2. The file also appears in this Github repo in the branch devicelist: https://github.com/google/oboe/blob/1c95aa99177d25bd573bf398...
    comment by fisian · 2023-09-26 · in Ask HN: Android low latency audio in 2023
  3. …https://developer.apple.com/metal/ https://developer.apple.com/documentation/driverkit And Google, https://github.com/google/oboe https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs Maybe modern C++ is safe from OOP, so lets look into ranges,…
    comment by pjmlp · 2021-09-05 · in Object-Oriented Programming in C (2019) [pdf]
  4. …about next-gen low latency audio library Oboe and real-time physically based renderer Filament https://github.com/google/oboe/tree/master/samples https://github.com/google/filament/tree/main/samples Best of Luck ;)
    comment by ArtWomb · 2021-05-01 · in Ask HN: What are some of must have skills for a Mobile App Developer in 2021?
  5. …can find a description of how to measure Tap-to-Tone Latency and Round Trip Latency in this doc: https://github.com/google/oboe/blob/master/apps/OboeTester/d... We do not use the Larsen Effect any more because it was too sensitive to…
    comment by donturner · 2021-03-11 · in An update on Android's audio latency
  6. I'm the author. My testing methodology was to run the round-trip latency test using OboeTester: https://github.com/google/oboe/tree/master/apps/OboeTester/d... . It's a simple test: produce a tone (either on built-in speaker or over wired…
    comment by donturner · 2021-03-08 · in An update on Android's audio latency
  7. …refresh rate becomes the standard (but even that is huuuuge compared to a MIDI controller). [1] https://github.com/google/oboe [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/7teiwe/lets_discus...
    comment by romwell · 2019-03-21 · in Terminal latency (2017)
  8. …despite being far better than android. That's how bad android is. EDIT 7ms claimed in screenshot at https://github.com/google/oboe/blob/master/samples/hello-obo... - doesn't include input latency: average latency of the audio stream…
    comment by hyperpallium · 2018-10-12 · in Oboe: A C++ library for low latency audio in Android
  9. …Also some of the nicer native libraries are C++, like the newly introduced real time audio, https://github.com/google/oboe So it is still an higher bar to use Rust than just using what the the NDK/SDK offer out of the box.
    comment by pjmlp · 2018-01-04 · in Announcing Rust 1.23