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SpacyRicochet
SpacyRicochet

Reputation: 2279

AVPlayer doesn't resume playback on endinterruption on iPhone but does so on iPad

I'm writing a radio app for both iPhone and iPad and am running into some weird behaviour when handling pausing and playing the audio with interruptions. I'm using the AVAudioSessionDelegate methods beginInterruption and endInterruption to respectively pause and play the AVPlayer. Below is the relevant play code.

Now, the following situations seem to happen consistently:

  1. On iPad: If I force an interruption (Facetime call), beginInterruption is called as expected and playback stops. If the interruption stops, endInterruption is called as expected, and the playback resumes as expected.
  2. On iPhone: Pressing the play and pause button, triggers pause and play exactly the same as beginInterruption and endInterruption would. Playback behaves as expected.
  3. On iPhone: Forcing an interruption (by calling the phone), calls endInterruption as expected and playback pauses as expected. However, when the interruption is finished, beginInterruption is called as expected, play is called as expected, it actually reaches and executes the [self.player play] line, but playback does not resume! I hear nothing.

Situation 3 above is extremely weird, so I'm wondering if I may have overlooked something. Any ideas?

Play code

- (void)play { 
NSError* error = nil;
AVKeyValueStatus keyStatus = [currentAsset statusOfValueForKey:@"tracks" error:&error];
if(error){
    DLog(@"Error %@", [error localizedDescription]);
}
else {
    DLog(@"Current Key Status: %i", keyStatus);
    if(keyStatus == AVKeyValueStatusLoaded){
        DLog(@"Continue playing source: %@", self.source);
        [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback error:&error];
        if (error) {
            DLog(@"Error during play while setting AVAudioSessionCategory: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
        }
        [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setActive:YES error:&error];
        if (error) {
            DLog(@"Error during play while setting AVAudioSessionCategory: %@", [error localizedDescription]);
        }
        [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setDelegate:self];
        if(backgroundTaskID != UIBackgroundTaskInvalid){
            [[UIApplication sharedApplication] endBackgroundTask:backgroundTaskID];
        }
        backgroundTaskID = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler:NULL];

        [self.player play];
        [self setStatus:kNPOMediaPlayerStatusPlaying];
    }
    else {
        DLog(@"PlaySource: %@", self.source);
        [self playSource:self.source];
    }
}}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2681

Answers (2)

Roland
Roland

Reputation: 854

I had the same issue. Issue disappeared after I implemented remote control event handling. I called [[UIApplication sharedApplication] beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents];when starting playback.

Upvotes: 2

SpacyRicochet
SpacyRicochet

Reputation: 2279

It turns out that this is a known bug in iOS, which requires some careful work-arounds in the applicationDidBecomeActive to handle beginInterruption. Sadly, I couldn't figure out another solution.

Upvotes: 1

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