Cordova Android how to stop audio on pause?

Question

a colleague of me made a crossplattform game app with Cordova. now he is in vacation and I have the problem, that the background music of the app is still playing, if you press the home button and leave the app. Also if you make a phone call.

I tried to set the Android <preference name="KeepRunning" value="false"/>and also to true, but that didn't help.

Any idea what to do, to handle this problem?

no need to mention who previously work and why you working now. share some code. using what audio is playing in app? — Divyesh Savaliya, Jul 21 '16 at 13:29
we are using some kind of HTML5 sound library, which is able to play more than one sound at once. — DeeFour, Jul 21 '16 at 15:10

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 21 '16 at 15:13

I found an anwser by myself:

we had to set <preference name="KeepRunning" value="true"/> and then add this events:

function onLoad() {
    document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
}

// device APIs are available
//
function onDeviceReady() {
    document.addEventListener("pause", onPause, false);
    document.addEventListener("resume", onResume, false);
}

function onPause() {
    // Handle the pause event
    // Set loudness to zero
}

function onResume() {
    // Handle the resume event
    // Set loudness to one

}

If KeepRunning is set to false, Cordova does not recognize the onPause/onResume events.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '18 at 13:17

My problem was, that the onPause event war fired AFTER the application resumes. -.- But I could figure out a small hack which works. At least for me:

document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", function() {
        if (document.hidden) {
            //onPause stuff
        } else {
            //onResume stuff
        }

    }, false);

This works for me on Android when the game minimized, the device turns off, or the tab is switched.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 21 '16 at 15:13

1

Use the cordova pause event:

document.addEventListener('pause', function() {
  // Tell your audio library to pause here
});

When the user re-opens the app, the resume event will fire:

document.addEventListener('resume', function() {
  // Tell your audio library to start playing again
});

answered Jul 21 '16 at 15:13

Tom Jardine-McNamara

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thanks I got it with the same result a few minutes ago. :-) – DeeFour Jul 21 '16 at 15:16

Cordova Android how to stop audio on pause?

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