video stops background music

[alexlnos]

hello, tell me how to start the video so that the music is not paused
I have music playing on my phone (not in my application) and I want to open a page with a video, but so that the music doesn't stop, how can I do this?

[natebgurutech]

I am also wanting to do this. The documentation for Android says we need to manage our audio focus in some way. Here is some information I found about it:

Android:
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media-apps/audio-focus#java

iOS:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29024320/how-can-i-allow-background-music-to-continue-playing-while-my-app-still-plays-it

I'm not completely sure if this should be up to the developer to try to get something working or if this should be part of / documented for this library.

[ZmanElete]

Hey I'm having this issue too 👍

[natebgurutech]

After a little googling, it looks like a different library, Nativescript Exoplayer, does allow background sound.

I know that isn't a fix for this library but it does let us know that this plugin should probably take care of it for us. I don't know if exoplayer is NativeScript 7 ready.

Here's a small excerpt of their readme:

backgroundAudio - (boolean) - optional
If set to true, the audio for the video won't pause any existing audio playing. Instead it will play simultaneously with the existing audio. This is similar to how instagram and facebook play their video audio.

https://github.com/NathanaelA/nativescript-exoplayer/tree/master/src#properties

[natebgurutech]

Is there a possibility of getting these little options into this library? It would really help if we could allow sound to play in the background of our videos.

[ZmanElete]

Agreed. Still interested in these changes. Any updates?