1166018 - Firefox pauses system audio when launched (while not previously running)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)

Description

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Reported with iTunes, Audible, and Pandora.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This is not reproducible on my iPhone 6 (8.3). I tried this with Podcasts, Spotify and Music and Firefox did not suspend audio when launched into the foreground.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #1)
> This is not reproducible on my iPhone 6 (8.3). I tried this with Podcasts,
> Spotify and Music and Firefox did not suspend audio when launched into the
> foreground.

Ah, this happens when Firefox was not previously running

Comment 3

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Steven will look into what's happening.

Comment 4

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

Attachment: PR https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/pull/490

The AuralProgress bar, when created, setups a AVAudioEngine which blocks out the sound in the app. I've made the auralProgress property in the BVC an optional now so that it will only get created when the user turns on VoiceOver.

Comment 5

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Hilariously, this also happens in the Simulator: it stops the audio in desktop iTunes.

Comment 6

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

Comment on attachment 8608970 [details] [review]
PR https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/pull/490

Sounds like we might be trying a different approach, so removing r? flag for now.

Comment 7

[Boris Dušek]

Attachment: Pull Request

Comment 8

[Brian Nicholson (:bnicholson)]

Comment on attachment 8609903 [details] [review]
Pull Request

Nice, glad the fix is so simple!

Comment 9

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios/commit/9258bf732b5853b2a762571313d6767b34bba90f