How to stop and resume background audio from iPhone app?

Question

Am working in Messaging based iPhone app. I have added Beep sound to receive message from someone else. I am playing beep sound using AVAudioPlayer. My problem

Answer 1

You cannot do this for all applications. For applications that use the iPod player in their applications:

Assuming your application is in foreground. You can do this:

MPMusicPlayerController *mp = [MPMusicPlayerController iPodMusicPlayer];        
[mp stop]; // or [mp pause]

This needs the MediaPlayer.framework and also #import .

Read more at MPMusicPlayerController Reference.

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For doing it through Audio Player Sessions you can use the property kAudioSessionCategory_SoloAmbientSound. Reference here.

This is similar to AVAudioSessionCategorySoloAmbient defined in AVAudioSession class.

Quoting from the documentation:

When you use this category, audio from other apps is silenced.