Bypass Sound Restriction

[Gautam Mehta]

I am working on a game in webview. The game has a background music which should start playing automatically as the page loads. But I have learnt that the user needs to interact with the page at least once to enable sounds on the webpage. How can I bypass this. Any help would be gr8.

[Alan Hendry]

Hi,

What if you use javascript to "fake" a user interaction, like

document.getElementById("myCheck").click();

(You'd need a link/button with id="mycheck" with an onclick event that didn't do very much). 

Regards, ah

[Gautam Mehta]

Yeah that's what I had thought.:-)

And btw, I think the document.getElement.... method will not work as it was not an actual click but one generated by the site itself. 

But we can use the DS StimulateTouch method I think as it is not an internal business.

But isn't there a cleaner way to do this?

[Alan Hendry]

Hi,

In post webView SimulateTouch, Steve said 

"

I have never been able to get SimulateTouch to work with a webview at all

I just have assumed it doesn't work

"

You could try a native app with a webView loading URL of a local file with your HTML, 

Then use web.execute to fake user interaction.

(Or play the music using app.PlaySound).

Regards, ah

[Steve Garman]

Without knowing what kind of user interaction is needed to start the music it is hard to guess what might help

There are cases where web.Focus() called when loading has completed might be enough

Do you have some sample code that demonstrates the problem?

[Gautam Mehta]

Well I am using phaser 2 as the game engine and the code is a mess but in short its like this:

--preload sound

--create sound

--set it to loop

--play sound

And Yes I tried SimulateTouch in webview local url to activate the sound but it didn't work.

[Gautam Mehta]

I found out the actual problem and the solution. It wasn't with webview not allowing sound without user gesture. Apparently it does allow as when I tried it with a smaller sound file it worked. So the issue was with the game engine which was not able to load the sound file instantly and hence it didn't play.

Fixed it with this:

bgSndInterval=setInterval(function() {

        if (bgSnd.isPlaying) {

            clearInterval(bgSndInterval);

        }

        else {

            bgSnd.play();

        }

    },100);

Thanks for your time 🙂

[Steve Garman]

Thanks for letting us know what you have discovered

When I have an unexplained problem in one of my apps, I often find that writing a cutdown version to explain the problem to someone else helps me to track down a fix

[Gautam Mehta]

There we go🤜🏼