iOS play audio in background

[NworbLegin]

Hi,

I can't see anything in the documentation, but is there a way to play audio in the background on iOS? ie. when the app is backgrounded the audio continues to play?

Cheers

Nigel

[mackron]

I'm not sure how you would achieve this - I'm not Apple user and I lean very heavily on the community for advice on that front. However, miniaudio does expose a lot of options which you can configure via the device config, but I'm not sure if they can help. These are the options:

typedef enum
{
    ma_ios_session_category_default = 0,        /* AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord. */
    ma_ios_session_category_none,               /* Leave the session category unchanged. */
    ma_ios_session_category_ambient,            /* AVAudioSessionCategoryAmbient */
    ma_ios_session_category_solo_ambient,       /* AVAudioSessionCategorySoloAmbient */
    ma_ios_session_category_playback,           /* AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback */
    ma_ios_session_category_record,             /* AVAudioSessionCategoryRecord */
    ma_ios_session_category_play_and_record,    /* AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord */
    ma_ios_session_category_multi_route         /* AVAudioSessionCategoryMultiRoute */
} ma_ios_session_category;

/* iOS/tvOS/watchOS session category options */
typedef enum
{
    ma_ios_session_category_option_mix_with_others                            = 0x01,   /* AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionMixWithOthers */
    ma_ios_session_category_option_duck_others                                = 0x02,   /* AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionDuckOthers */
    ma_ios_session_category_option_allow_bluetooth                            = 0x04,   /* AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionAllowBluetooth */
    ma_ios_session_category_option_default_to_speaker                         = 0x08,   /* AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionDefaultToSpeaker */
    ma_ios_session_category_option_interrupt_spoken_audio_and_mix_with_others = 0x11,   /* AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionInterruptSpokenAudioAndMixWithOthers */
    ma_ios_session_category_option_allow_bluetooth_a2dp                       = 0x20,   /* AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionAllowBluetoothA2DP */
    ma_ios_session_category_option_allow_air_play                             = 0x40,   /* AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionAllowAirPlay */
} ma_ios_session_category_option;

Whether they can help you I'm not sure. Sorry I can't be of more help with this one.