[SOLVED] OpenFL No Sound in iOS

#1

I know that sound has been an issue over the years with iOS devices, but I have yet to find a solution in the archive. My compiled Haxe+OpenFL program runs fine on all devices but sound will not play on iOS. Does anyone know why?

#2

Are you talking about html5? Or native?
If it’s a problem with html then you have to play any sound on mousedown/click event first, afterwards all sounds should work fine.

#3

I target HTML5 (scripting in Flashdevelop using Haxe + OpenFL). Here’s a link to the prototype of the game (http://roomrecess.com/Haxe/BoomBlocks/play.html). Do I need to code the mousedown/click event through html or through Haxe?

#4

Haxe is fine, something like this should work:

function init()
{
     stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fixSound);
}
function fixSound(e:MouseEvent)
{
     var fix:Sound = Assets.getSound('assets/fix.mp3'); //any sound will be fine
     fix.play()
     stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, fixSound);
}

You could also add “START GAME” button to your game, play the sound on button click and start the game.

#5

Thanks man! I’ll give it a shot. I have a lot of little users that will be happy with sound.

#6

Still no luck. I tried both solutions. Works fine on everything but iOS.

#7

hi,
assuming openfl 3.6.1 and lime 2.9.1,
inside a command line create a sample test with

“openfl create playingsound”

edit main.hx and replace
#if flash
sound = Assets.getSound (“assets/stars.mp3”);
#else
sound = Assets.getSound (“assets/stars.ogg”);
#end

with

	sound = Assets.getSound ("assets/shortsound.mp3");

modify project.xml with

	assets path="Assets" rename="assets" embed="false" if="html5"

add a short and loud mp3 in assets in the assets/sound directory

then build with : openfl build html5

it should now run on anything. At least, on my computer : edge, firefox and chrome and my iphone.

_jb

#8

I think that did it. At least on the test project. Now I’ll try to see what it does in the game. Thanks a lot!

#9

Confirmed. Both things that were recommended worked! I host a site for kids (RoomRecess.com), and we’re trying to go mobile through HTML5. Now, thanks to you two, we can! Very appreciative!

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