I use a subroutine to check and see if it is a string of three or more blocks vertically. If so when you press the top block or any block with three below the same color, I do a sound and change the blocks to a elimination color. Then when the sound ends I check the list for that elimination color and move the blocks from above down.. for specials I have a special checker, which calculates which blocks adjacent to the special block need to be eliminated. Like for the horizontal ray gun I calculate which blocks are to the left and right of the special and mark them for elimination. Then I do the sound, change those blocks images to a horizontal Ray effect. When the sound finishes I then eliminate those blocks. I use elimination subroutine that will drop the blocks. I use lots of lists for effects like the horizontal gradient.
How many sound components do you have?
(Trick question - the Sound component blocks execution)
Only 22 players, but no sound blocks. I use the players as timers also. Like change blocks to an explosion image, play explosion sound, when player finished change blocks to holes, drop the blocks into holes. Works. Got rid of a timer, the flashing bomb, and that removed some slow down. I suspect too many timers enabled at the same time is a bad thing
Some articles on waiting and timing here
Alternatively use only 1 player and set the sound to play before playing
Reuse your components...
Taifun
But you can have only one 'when player finished' block per player. That's why I use multiple players, when they finish they can do unique things, after a time delay, the length of the sound mp3. Does it hurt to have many players as long as they aren't playing at the same time?
Are you planning on updating your extension with this? Sure a lot of people including me would be interested and thankful
Still working on it. Some parts work OK, others not quite as I would like. Android Developers documentation is generally terse, and without examples (especially for us), it therefore is a bit hit and miss for the uneducated (like me). Watch this space.
I certainly will be checking in, thank you very much. I'd like to just minimize the navigation bar and keep the status bar. For now I made a fake status bar
Unfortunately, the thing I have the biggest problem with is the Nav bar. I can hide it, but would have to remove the colour from the status bar.
You might have more success with adjusting the margins of your arrangements ( I have included a method for this)
I tried your hidebar extension and it worked, I used taifun tools hide SUI block since it was already added to the project and it worked also. I prefer a black status and navigation bar so I'm not concerned with setting their coloring, more concerned with being forced to have them colored
I can do both black (with white icons and text) 
More info here: