How do I make my Tags NativeScript app play sound mixed in with other app playing in background?
I have looked everywhere, please help!
My solution for this. Add this lines in app.js
var audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance();
try {
audioSession.setCategoryError(AVAudioSessionCategoryAmbient);
audioSession.setActiveError(true);
} catch(err) {
console.log("setting audioSession category failed");
}
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Using the Plugin.AudioRecorder NuGet in Xamarin Forms / iOS, I am able to record audio on iPhone 8 but on playback it is whisper quiet. How to increase the sound volume?
In AppDelegate.cs I have:
AudioPlayer.RequestAVAudioSessionCategory (AVAudioSessionCategory.PlayAndRecord);
By default playback was via the phone's upper speaker. Directing output to the lower speaker solves the problem.
In AppDelegate.cs, add:
AudioPlayer.OnPrepareAudioSession = x =>
{
// Route audio to the lower speaker rather than the upper speaker so sound volume is not minimal
x.OverrideOutputAudioPort ( AVAudioSessionPortOverride.Speaker, out NSError error );
};
AudioPlayer.OnPrepareAudioSession was not getting called for me. An alternative solution to direct audio output to the lower speaker:
var audioSession = AVAudioSession.SharedInstance();
var success = audioSession.SetCategory(AVAudioSession.CategoryPlayAndRecord, out var error);
if (success)
{
success = audioSession.OverrideOutputAudioPort(AVAudioSessionPortOverride.Speaker, out error);
if (success)
audioSession.SetActive(true, out error);
}
I ran this code in my AppDelegate.FinishedLaunching() override
We have functionality for background recording in app.
It is working fine when app in background mode but it is stop when we open other app and play sound in it.How can we continue recording even without stop recording when other app play sound.
Note: When Recording start at that time out app in background mode.
Call this method in appDelegate,
func audioSessionSettings() {
do {
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryRecord, with: AVAudioSessionCategoryOptions.mixWithOthers)
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true)
} catch let error {
print(error.localizedDescription)
}
}
I'm developing a swift audio/video and text chat iOS App using AVAudioSession.
Whenever I select to use some Bluetooth devices the sound played on the device is not the App audio stream. They play only the system sound sent by text chat library whenever messages are sent/received instead. It doesn't happen on all Bluetooth devices, on some of them everything works fine. On Builtin Mic and Speaker the App works fine too.
Here are the most important methods from my class to manage the device:
class MyAudioSession
{
private var mAudioSession: AVAudioSession;
init!()
{
self.mAudioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance();
do {
try self.mAudioSession.setActive(false);
try self.mAudioSession.setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord, withOptions: .AllowBluetooth);
try self.mAudioSession.setMode(AVAudioSessionModeVideoChat);
try self.mAudioSession.setActive(true);
}
catch {
return nil;
}
}
func switchToDevice(device: AVAudioSessionPortDescription!) -> Bool
{
var ret = false;
if (device != nil) {
do {
try self.mAudioSession.setPreferredInput(device);
ret = true;
}
catch {
self.logSwitch(device, error: error);
}
}
return ret;
}
}
I'd like to understand why my App is not working fine on just SOME Bluetooth devices. These same devices work properly on the other Apps on my Cel.
I did another test: I changed all of this for MPVolumeView, and exactly the same issue occurred, so the problem seems to be on audio player.
Could anybody give me a suggestion to fix this ?
Thx.
Jorg,
While this might not be the best answer I have been able to overcome the weird Bluetooth issues. My problem seems to be similar to yours as I too was using:
AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord
This was causing issues for me on some Bluetooth devices (not all but some).
What I wound up doing was setting the Category to:
AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback
Then when ever I needed to record I would switch the Category over to:
AVAudioSessionCategoryRecord
Then back to Playback after completing my recording.
This was the only way at this time I could get a consistent result from switching between the different outputs (Speaker, Headphones, Bluetooth).
Hope that helps some. Guessing this is a bug in the "AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord"
I have an app that needs to have:
Background music playing while using the app (eg. spotify)
Background music playing while watching movie from AVPlayer
Stop the music when recording a video
Like Snapchat, the camera-viewcontroller is part of a "swipeview" and therefore always on.
However, when opening and closing the app, the music makes a short "crack" noise/sound that ruins the music.
I recorded it here:
https://soundcloud.com/morten-stulen/hacky-sound-ios
(3 occurrences)
I use these settings for changing the AVAudiosession in the appdelegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:
do {
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord,withOptions:
[AVAudioSessionCategoryOptions.MixWithOthers,
AVAudioSessionCategoryOptions.DefaultToSpeaker])
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true)
} catch {
print("error")
}
I use the LLSimpleCamera control for video recording and I've set the session there to:
_session.automaticallyConfiguresApplicationAudioSession = NO;
It seems others have the same problem with other camera libraries as well:
https://github.com/rFlex/SCRecorder/issues/127
https://github.com/rFlex/SCRecorder/issues/224
This guy removed the audioDeviceInput, but I kinda need that for recording video.
https://github.com/omergul123/LLSimpleCamera/issues/48
I also tried with Apple's code "AvCam", and I still have the same issue. How does Snapchat do this?!
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I'll gladly provide more info or code!
I do something similar to what you're wanting, but without the camera aspect, but I think this will do what you want. My app allows background audio that will mix with non-fullscreen video/audio. When the user plays an audio file or a full screen video file, I stop the background audio completely.
The reason I do SoloAmbient then Playback is because I allow my audio to be played in the background when the device is locked. Going SoloAmbient will stop all background music playing and then switching to Playback lets my audio play in the app as well as in the background.
This is why you see a call to a method that sets the lock screen information in the Unload method. In this case, it is nulling it out so that there is no lock screen info.
In AppDelegate.swift
//MARK: Audio Session Mixing
func allowBackgroundAudio()
{
do {
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback, withOptions: .MixWithOthers)
} catch {
NSLog("AVAudioSession SetCategory - Playback:MixWithOthers failed")
}
}
func preventBackgroundAudio()
{
do {
//Ask for Solo Ambient to prevent any background audio playing, then change to normal Playback so we can play while locked
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategorySoloAmbient)
try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback)
} catch {
NSLog("AVAudioSession SetCategory - SoloAmbient failed")
}
}
When I want to stop background audio, for example when playing an audio track that should be alone, I do the following:
In MyAudioPlayer.swift
func playUrl(url: NSURL?, backgroundImageUrl: NSURL?, title: String, subtitle: String)
{
ForgeHelper.appDelegate().preventBackgroundAudio()
if _mediaPlayer == nil {
self._mediaPlayer = MediaPlayer()
_mediaPlayer!.delegate = self
}
//... Code removed for brevity
}
And when I'm done with my media playing, I do this:
private func unloadMediaPlayer()
{
if _mediaPlayer != nil {
_mediaPlayer!.unload()
self._mediaPlayer = nil
}
_controlView.updateForProgress(0, duration: 0, animate: false)
ForgeHelper.appDelegate().allowBackgroundAudio()
setLockScreenInfo()
}
Hope this helps you out!
I am building an app using PhoneGap that needs to be able to play local .mp3 files even though the phone is locked/standby.
The audio player is build in HTML5, and is working fine, but the music stops when I either close the app or turn off the phone.
I tried following the answer given in this link
UIWebView: HTML5 audio pauses in iOS 6 when app enters background
But no luck...
I did the import code at the top with the other import functions.
And I also included the AVFoundation framework to my target.
This is how the code looks in the AppDelegate.m
/**
* This is main kick off after the app inits, the views and Settings are setup here. (preferred -iOS4 and up)
*/
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication*)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary*)launchOptions
{
/* THE GOOD STUFF */
AVAudioSession *audioSession = [AVAudioSession sharedInstance];
BOOL ok;
NSError *setCategoryError = nil;
ok = [audioSession setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback
error:&setCategoryError];
if (!ok) {
NSLog(#"%s setCategoryError=%#", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, setCategoryError);
}
I tried in simulator and on iPhone 5.
Is anyone able to help?
Firstly you have to set your audio category in your app_name-info.plist
Then use the phonegap API media player
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.7.0/cordova_media_media.md.html#media.play
function playAudio(url) {
// Play the audio file at url
var my_media = new Media(url,
// success callback
function() {
console.log("playAudio():Audio Success");
},
// error callback
function(err) {
console.log("playAudio():Audio Error: "+err);
});
// Play audio
my_media.play({ playAudioWhenScreenIsLocked : true });
Notice the playAudioWhenScreenIsLocked defaults to true anyways.
Also note in the Simulator the Audio will never work in background, so you will need to test on a device.
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