Paul Kane created CB-6495:
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Summary: Media plugin : Need way to set session category for iOS
Key: CB-6495
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-6495
Project: Apache Cordova
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Plugin Media
Environment: iOS, all
Reporter: Paul Kane
Priority: Critical
I need a way to play a sound effect (the occasional "beep") in my Cordova app
without it shutting down any other Audio Sessions. Currently any sound from my
app will cancel iTunes/Spotify/etc background music.
Apple has a bunch of "Audio Session" categories which determine how an app's
audio will mix with other audio streams. The documentation is here :
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AVFoundation/Reference/AVAudioSession_ClassReference/Reference/Reference.html
Anyway, the only 2 audio session categories mentioned in the Media plugin are
hard-wired in there and not configurable. It should probably be more of an
option, the way that playAudioWhenScreenIsLocked and numberOfLoops are options.
The category I needed was AVAudioSessionCategoryAmbient. For now I've simply
hard-wired it in for my project, but I'm going to need to patch the plugin
after every plugin upgrade, etc.
Also worth noting, the setCategory function should probably be called before
the prepareToPlay function (it's not, currently). Without doing that, setting
the category wasn't having any effect for me. Found the solution here :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10377959/on-ipad-why-does-avaudiosessioncategoryambient-stop-the-music-playing-in-ipod
I'm not an iOS programmer, and Objective-C and github both confuse the hell out
of me so you probably don't want me contributing my code to the plugin, but
hopefully these notes can be of help to someone better qualified.
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