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cpprulez
cpprulez

Reputation: 896

applicationMusicPlayer stops when user locks the screen on iOS 5

I set the audio session category to kAudioSessionCategory_MediaPlayback, I active the session, which returns no errors, and still the iPod music stops when I lock the device. This happens on iOS 5 GM, so I guess this will happen in the final version. On iOS 4+ the current code works fine. Any ideas how to fix this? Huge thanks :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2708

Answers (2)

Andrew Bennett
Andrew Bennett

Reputation: 930

Fixed this issue for my particular problem - how to detect the difference between OS4 and OS5 behavior when device gets to the Lock screen.

In OS4 app does 'applicationWillResignActive' but on OS5 it goes all the way to 'applicationDidEnterBackground' which looks exactly the same as the user hitting the Home button.

It turns out that if you check the UIApplicationState of the application given in '- (void)applicationDidEnterBackground:(UIApplication *)application', it has 3 possible values:

typedef enum {
   UIApplicationStateActive,
   UIApplicationStateInactive,
   UIApplicationStateBackground
} UIApplicationState;

When the user hits home on OS5, you get UIApplicationStateBackground, but when the user hits Lock, you get UIApplicationStateInactive.

Hope that helps.

Happy Holidays everyone.

Upvotes: 2

voidStern
voidStern

Reputation: 3678

It's not a bug. To save power locking the phone is now treated as if the user pressed the home button. The fact that applicationMusicPlayer stops now when locking is just a side effect of this change.

To work around this problem you should switch to AVPlayer and make use iOS 4's audio in background mode.

Upvotes: 2

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