avaudiosession

When recording audio with an AVAudioSession audio playback from the music app or others is stopped. This is described in the audio session documentation: AVAudioSessionCategoryRecord For recording audio; this category silences playback audio. Is there any way to change this behavior and do one of the following? 1) Continue playing other apps' audio and allow the phone to record the audio that is being played. 2) Resume other apps' audio once a brief recording is finished. There are notifications apps can respond to when audio interruptions begin or end. Is there something specific that must be

My app is playing in background well. Pause and play also works well even my app is background using the methods registered for AVAudioSessionInterruptionNotification . The problem arrives steps for the scenario: Launch my app -> goes background music from my app playing well launch apple's music app and play. AVAudioSessionInterruptionNotification fired . When i pause the music app or kill the music app. AVAudioSessionInterruptionNotification doesn't get fired Code: I am doing this in appdelegate . didfinishlaunching NSError *sessionError = nil; [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory

I have an issue where I would like to have the iPod playing music in the background and in my application I would like to have AVSpeechUtterance lower the volume of the iPod, play a string of text and then I would like to have the iPod resume playing. I have tried several things but never had AVAudioSession and AVSpeechUtterance work well together. I can get the iPod to stop, pause for a bit and then start playing again. I can see my string being passed to AVSpeechUtterance , but it does not take precedence to be played over the speaker. Here is my code: View did load: - (void)viewDidLoad { /

I want to detect specially on iPad's if there is ear piece available or not. For example - I can detect if the iOS device hasTourch or not using AVFoundation so is there any way to detect ear piece availability. 1) If you want to check if Ear piece (Receiver speaker) is available on device You can identify this by simply identifying if Device is iPhone. UIDevice.current.userInterfaceIdiom == .phone in iOS prottype AVAudioSessionPortBuiltInReceiver is there for builtInreceriver speaker. and according to apple's documentation , This is available only on iPhone device. So there is no need to

I have spent days researching on SO and other websites for the answer to this but without any luck. Essentially, the challenge I've set for myself is to create an alarm clock app for iOS that will sound no matter where the user may be (foreground or background). This I have already accomplished by using an AVAudioPlayer instance and starting to play an empty sound file when the user sets the alarm in order for the app to keep running in the background. When it is time for the alarm to go off (ie when the NSTimer is fired) a second player, which has already been initiated and prepared to play,