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[iOS][Audio] Can't play an audio when the app is already in background
See original GitHub issue🐛 Bug Report
Environment
Expo CLI 2.19.5 environment info:
System:
OS: Linux 5.0 Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo)
Shell: 3.0.2 - /usr/bin/fish
Binaries:
Node: 10.15.2 - /tmp/yarn--1567012357926-0.5700793194663918/node
Yarn: 1.16.0 - /tmp/yarn--1567012357926-0.5700793194663918/yarn
npm: 5.8.0 - /usr/bin/npm
npmPackages:
@types/react: ^16.8.19 => 16.8.19
@types/react-native: ^0.57.60 => 0.57.62
expo: ^34.0.3 => 34.0.4
react: 16.8.3 => 16.8.3
react-native: https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-34.0.0.tar.gz => 0.59.8
npmGlobalPackages:
expo-cli: 3.0.10
This bug only happens in iOS.
Steps to Reproduce
- Try to play a music when the app is in background. You can check the code in my snack: https://snack.expo.io/@gsantiago/reproducible-bug---failed-to-play-audio-when-the-app-is-in-background
Expected Behavior
- The app should play the audio when it’s already in background.
Actual Behavior
- In Android, it works perfectly fine.
- In iOS, I get the following error:
[Error: Play encountered an error: audio session not activated.]
Reproducible Demo
And, yes. I have set staysActiveInBackground: true and all other necessary modes to play in background, and also UBackgroundModes: [‘audio’] in the app.json.
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 4 years ago
- Reactions:20
- Comments:27 (4 by maintainers)
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Is any progress on this issue?
As far as I’m aware, this was due to an issue in expo-av (similar issue was reported here https://github.com/expo/expo/pull/9363)
You should now be able to resume/play audio when in the background when
staysActiveInBackground=trueis set.This has not yet landed in the Expo client, but you can try it out in a bare project using:
yarn install expo-av@8.4.0You can find the changelog here: https://github.com/expo/expo/blob/master/packages/expo-av/CHANGELOG.md
Let us know whether that fixes it for you.