Native Audio

@capacitor-community/native-audio

Capacitor community plugin for playing sounds.

Capacitor Native Audio Plugin

Capacitor plugin for native audio engine. Capacitor v3 - ✅ Support!

Click on video to see example 💥

Maintainers

Maintainer	GitHub	Social
Maxim Bazuev	bazuka5801	Telegram

Mainteinance Status: Actively Maintained

Preparation

All audio place in specific platform folder

Andoid: android/app/src/assets

iOS: ios/App/App/sounds

Web: assets/sounds

Installation

To use npm

npm install @capacitor-community/native-audio

To use yarn

yarn add @capacitor-community/native-audio

Sync native files

npx cap sync

On iOS, Android and Web, no further steps are needed.

Configuration

No configuration required for this plugin.

Supported methods

Name	Android	iOS	Web
configure	✅	✅	❌
preload	✅	✅	✅
play	✅	✅	✅
pause	✅	✅	✅
resume	✅	✅	✅
loop	✅	✅	✅
stop	✅	✅	✅
unload	✅	✅	✅
setVolume	✅	✅	✅
getDuration	✅	✅	✅
getCurrentTime	✅	✅	✅
isPlaying	✅	✅	✅

Usage

Example repository

import {NativeAudio} from '@capacitor-community/native-audio'


/**
 * This method will load more optimized audio files for background into memory.
 * @param assetPath - relative path of the file or absolute url (file://)
 *        assetId - unique identifier of the file
 *        audioChannelNum - number of audio channels
 *        isUrl - pass true if assetPath is a `file://` url
 * @returns void
 */
NativeAudio.preload({
    assetId: "fire",
    assetPath: "fire.mp3",
    audioChannelNum: 1,
    isUrl: false
});

/**
 * This method will play the loaded audio file if present in the memory.
 * @param assetId - identifier of the asset
 * @param time - (optional) play with seek. example: 6.0 - start playing track from 6 sec
 * @returns void
 */
NativeAudio.play({
    assetId: 'fire',
    // time: 6.0 - seek time
});

/**
 * This method will loop the audio file for playback.
 * @param assetId - identifier of the asset
 * @returns void
 */
NativeAudio.loop({
  assetId: 'fire',
});


/**
 * This method will stop the audio file if it's currently playing.
 * @param assetId - identifier of the asset
 * @returns void
 */
NativeAudio.stop({
  assetId: 'fire',
});

/**
 * This method will unload the audio file from the memory.
 * @param assetId - identifier of the asset
 * @returns void
 */
NativeAudio.unload({
  assetId: 'fire',
});

/**
 * This method will set the new volume for a audio file.
 * @param assetId - identifier of the asset
 *        volume - numerical value of the volume between 0.1 - 1.0
 * @returns void
 */
NativeAudio.setVolume({
  assetId: 'fire',
  volume: 0.4,
});

/**
 * this method will get the duration of an audio file.
 * only works if channels == 1
 */
NativeAudio.getDuration({
  assetId: 'fire'
})
.then(result => {
  console.log(result.duration);
})

/**
 * this method will get the current time of a playing audio file.
 * only works if channels == 1
 */
NativeAudio.getCurrentTime({
  assetId: 'fire'
});
.then(result => {
  console.log(result.currentTime);
})

/**
 * This method will return false if audio is paused or not loaded.
 * @param assetId - identifier of the asset
 * @returns {isPlaying: boolean}
 */
NativeAudio.isPlaying({
  assetId: 'fire'
})
.then(result => {
  console.log(result.isPlaying);
})

API

playRaw(...)

playRaw(options: PlayRawOptions, callback: PlayRawCallback) => Promise<void>

Takes in a base64-encoded string, decodes, and plays the raw mp3 data via routing to device speakers

Param	Type	Description
options	PlayRawOptions	Object: { rawAudio: string, bluetoothBuffer: number, bluetoothKeepAlive: number }
callback	PlayRawCallback	Callback: (success, error) => {}

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stop()

stop() => Promise<Response>

Immediately stops all audio being played.

Returns: Promise<Response>

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bingbong()

bingbong() => Promise<void>

If you see these dogs in your front yard, just know upstairs I'm going hard. BING BONG.

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Interfaces

PlayRawOptions

Prop	Type
rawAudio	string
bluetoothBuffer	number
bluetoothKeepAlive	number

Response

Prop	Type
ok	boolean
done	boolean
msg	string

Type Aliases

PlayRawCallback

(response: Response, error?: any): void