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Paul Wenzel
Paul Wenzel

Reputation: 2016

How to play background audio in iOS with Trigger.io?

I'm attempting to build a streaming audio application with Trigger.io's framework.

Seeing that its API currently does not feature any audio-related methods, I tested it with basic HTML5 audio tags. Streaming MP3 and AAC worked in this case, but not when the application is backgrounded, even in iOS 5, which typically allows background audio in web apps.

Is there any to background audio in a Trigger.io application?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 733

Answers (1)

James Brady
James Brady

Reputation: 27492

Update, April 2013: We added a native audio playback API on our v1.4.39 platform: http://docs.trigger.io/en/v1.4/modules/media.html#createaudioplayer

Using this API, audio will continue to play when the user changes focus from the app.

Original answer:

Trigger doesn't yet support background audio playback.

The device manufacturers (rightly!) put some restrictions on being able to do work as a background service: we've not yet linked together starting and controlling playback in your JavaScript, with the non-JavaScript code that would actually do the playing.

It's on our roadmap, however: currently scheduled for completion in May 2012.

Upvotes: 4

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