react-native-audio-streaming

Features

- Background audio streaming of remote stream
- Control via sticky notification on android and media center on iOS
- Shoutcast/Icy meta data support
- Simple UI player component (if needed, an api to control the sound is available)

If you are only looking to play local audio file with app in foreground, please see other audio libs.

!Demo iOS
!Demo android

First installation step (applied for both iOS & Android)

$ npm install react-native-audio-streaming --save

$3

#### 1. Cocoapods installation

1. add pod 'RNAudioStreaming', :path => '../node_modules/react-native-audio-streaming' to Podfile
2. run pod install

#### 2. Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-audio-streaming

Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-audio-streaming => ios => Pods and drag/drop Pods.xcodeproj to the Libraries folder in your XCode project.

In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libReactNativeAudioStreaming.a and libStreamingKit.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries

#### 3. Manual installation

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-audio-streaming => ios
- run pod install to download StreamingKit dependency
- add ReactNativeAudioStreaming.xcodeproj to the Libraries folder in your XCode project
- add Pods/Pods.xcodeproj to the Libraries folder in your XCode project
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libReactNativeAudioStreaming.a and libStreamingKit.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)

$3

1. Make sure $(SRCROOT)/../node_modules/react-native-audio-streaming/ios is added to your project's Header Search Paths within the Build Settings section.

2. Update Info.plist file of your Xcode project and add audio background mode

``xml
UIBackgroundModes

audio

`

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1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java
- Add import com.audioStreaming.ReactNativeAudioStreamingPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
- Add new ReactNativeAudioStreamingPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method
If you're using Android 23 or above
- Add new ReactNativeAudioStreamingPackage(MainActivity.class) to he list returned by the getPackages()method instead.
2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:
`
include ':react-native-audio-streaming'
project(':react-native-audio-streaming').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-audio-streaming/android')
`
3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:
`
compile project(':react-native-audio-streaming')
`



Usage

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`javascript
import { ReactNativeAudioStreaming } from 'react-native-audio-streaming';

const url = "http://lacavewebradio.chickenkiller.com:8000/stream.mp3";
ReactNativeAudioStreaming.pause();
ReactNativeAudioStreaming.resume();
ReactNativeAudioStreaming.play(url, {showIniOSMediaCenter: true, showInAndroidNotifications: true});
ReactNativeAudioStreaming.stop();
`

For more information see the Example app.

$3

`javascript
import { Player } from 'react-native-audio-streaming';

class PlayerUI extends Component {
render() {
return (

);
}
}
`

TODO

- [ ] Allow to play local files
- [ ] Allow to specify custom style for the android notification (maybe a custom view ?)
- [ ] Allow to specify custom styles for the player
- [ ] Handle artwork of artist
- [ ] Add tests

Other RN audio projects

- jsierles/react-native-audio to play local audio and record
- zmxv/react-native-sound to play local audio with more controls

Credits

- Android version based on the work of @EstebanFuentealba https://github.com/EstebanFuentealba/react-native-android-audio-streaming-aac
- iOS version based on the work of @jhabdas https://github.com/jhabdas/lumpen-radio

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Contribute

Since symlink support is still lacking on React Native, I use the wml cli tool created by the nice folks at wix.

wml add ~/react-native-audio-streaming ~/react-native-audio-streaming/Example/node_modules/react-native-audio-streaming`

Changelog

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details