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   kablooie
   Member

   Several times I have run my program and not realized the ringer was set to silent which mutes Denshion sounds.

   I foresee a lot of users complaining about sound disappearing unexpectedly.

   Is there a way to setup Denshion so it will play when the ringer is set to silent?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Steve Oldmeadow
   Administrator

   Not respecting the ring/silent switch is the second most common audio related complaint I see from users in reviews and on forums like Touch Arcade (the most common complaint is not being able to play their own music).

   The Apple Human Interface Guidelines explicitly state that when the silent switch is on the user should:

   "Avoid hearing game sounds, including incidental sounds and soundtracks, that are not essential to using the game."

   So if you don't do this you risk your app being rejected in review because it did not follow the HIG.

   However, if you still want to proceed with ignoring the silent switch - it is the audio session category that determines the behaviour of the app with regard to the silent switch. You need to find an audio session category that ignores the silent switch and set your app to use that audio session category. From memory though I don't think any of the categories that ignore the silent switch will allow the user to listen to their own music so you'll risk annoying users on two fronts.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   kablooie
   Member

   I see. But there still is the issue of the switch mistakenly being set to silent and causing confusion. Perhaps I can put up a message stating that the switch is set to silent if the user tries to adjust the volume.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Steve Oldmeadow
   Administrator

   If you find a way to determine if the silent switch is on I will add it to CocosDenshion as I agree, it doesn't really make sense to adjust the volume if the audio is silent.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Steve Oldmeadow
   Administrator

   Okay, the aurioTouch example has code for determining the silent switch state. I'll add this to CocosDenshion. I might also add code to check if the user is listening on headphones or speaker.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   terrym
   Member

   Sounds great, keep up great work.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Steve Oldmeadow
   Administrator

   I've just checked this in as r1607. CDAudioManager now has isDeviceMuted which returns true if the ringer switch is set to off.

   SimpleAudioEngine users can still access this by just going directly to the CDAudioManager instance e.g.

   [[CDAudioManager sharedManager] isDeviceMuted];

   Posted 2 years ago #

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