No background audio on real iOS device

[flexgrip]

Hello,

In the simulator, background audio works great. I've followed the instructions and enabled background audio in xcode, as well as set all of the props to true or 'ignore'

playWhenInactive={this.state.playWhenInactive}
playInBackground={this.state.playInBackground}
ignoreSilentSwitch={this.state.ignoreSilentSwitch}

Since it works in the sim, I assumed I had all of the settings right. But when testing on a real iPhone 6s, hitting the home button while playing a video causes the audio to slowly mute, killing background audio.

Any ideas? I'm running the latest version of react-native-af, as well as RN 0.60.3

Thanks!

[flexgrip]

Just noticed that ignoreSilentSwitch Isn’t working either. Totally mutes the audio...

[flexgrip]

So it seems to work, depending on the orientation of the moon and the price of tea in China. Sometimes xcode builds a version that works, sometimes it doesn't. I can't seem to find the culprit.

I have no idea why it works on android, then doesn't work on iOS. Then I'll build it again a few hours later with no changes and it works great. I think maybe the only difference is one build is a debug build and another is a release build in xcode? Not sure why that would matter though, they still use the same Info.plist.

I guess I'll close this.

[flexgrip]

Nope. It's definitely related to this player. What I can do is swap this out for react-native-video, then swap back to this player without doing a complete reload and it'll then play in the background. If I kill the app and restart, it won't. So I think it has something to do with the react-native-video dependency being too old or something.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Setup a normal react-native-video instance so that playInBackground works.
2. Change import line back to react-native-af-video-player
3. Reload app without killing it. ... playInBackground and ignoreSilentSwitch works.
4. Kill the app in iOS and run it again ... now they don't work.

I am assuming this is because when you kill the app and start over, it is pulling in that dependency again? Not sure.

I tried updating react-native-video in this package.json to the current latest (4.4.4). Did not work.

I'll keep chugging along and try to figure out what the deal is.

[flexgrip]

Ok. So I did some manual edits to the af package itself. My suspicion was that the props weren't being passed or implemented somehow. So I manually edited playsInBackground and ignoreSilentSwitch and rebuilt everything. Then it started working.

I am also using @jay0512's fork: https://github.com/jay0512/react-native-af-video-player

I'll try to figure out why the props aren't properly being passed and provide a PR to fix it. Any help would be appreciated :)

[yehancha]

I had audio on my headphone but not the phone speakers. In my case I had turned on the hardware silent switch. Turning off did fix it. It seems the issue is with internal management of the react-native-video prop "ignoreSilentSwitch" as @flexgrip suggested.

react-native-audio repo also has listed few issues related to this and this post helped me: https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-video/issues/874#issuecomment-369840510