AudioRecorder Not Enabling Microphone

[callmearta]

Description

Hi thanks for the great package. We've become aware of a scenario where no matter how many times and places we call the AudioManager.setAudioOptions, still sometimes the microphone does not activate. I mean, we start recording but the microphone indicator on iPhone doesn't turn on indicating that it's recording. So we get an empty audio in return after stopping the recording.

This happens when we have a screen where the recorder is and a button somewhere that navigates to another page, when you come back from that page, the recorder no longer works and fails everytime and returns an empty audio buffer.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a screen with a button to record in it, create a button that navigates to another screen.
2. Start recording and then stop recording. Press the button that navigates to a new page.
3. Go back from the new page to the recorder page.
4. Starting recording doesn't activate microphone.

Snack or a link to a repository

React Native Audio API version

0.10.3

React Native version

0.79.1

Platforms

iOS

JavaScript runtime

None

Workflow

None

Architecture

None

Build type

None

Device

None

Device model

No response

Acknowledgements

Yes

[michalsek]

Hey, could you provide a minimal reproducible example? In order to assist you we need to know how the lifecycle of the recording object is handled, thanks! :)

[dccarmo]

What I've noticed is that the microphone indicator doesn't come on even if the microphone is indeed recording audio (at least in my experiments.) I'm not sure if we need to do anything special to have the indicator come up or not.

[callmearta]

Sorry i was not able to trim down the code so I can provide the example. the reproduction steps in general are the same as written. The thing is in some other rare cases it doesn't throw an error and neither does start microphone. For example a user of ours is using our app on Xiaomi device with android 13, he taps start recording and it seems like it's recording but the audio has no data in it. I don't know if this is related with the current issue in this topic, but it's happening in some cases. It just doesn't get any audio data.
We are calling AudioManager.setOptions first, then requestPermission, and then starting recording, so i don't think there's any issue in the usage.