[expo-av] Recording status not reset when paused before stopping

[FrenchMajesty]

Minimal reproducible example

https://snack.expo.dev/@frenchmajesty1/cannot-pause-before-ending-recording-on-ios

Summary

Must reproduce on iOS device. This behavior works well on the Web.

[ When it works ]

• User starts a recording
• Talk for 3sec
• User hits end recording
• (Timer resets to 0)
• User starts recording again
• (Timer starts going up from 0)

[ When it doesn't work ]

• User starts a recording
• Talk for 3sec
• User hit pause
• User ends the recording
• (Timer resets to 0)
• User starts recording again
• (Timer continues to record from 4sec)

It seems like when a user pauses a recording and then stops it, the status value doesn't get reset

Environment

expo-env-info 1.0.5 environment info:
System:
OS: macOS 13.3
Shell: 5.9 - /bin/zsh
Binaries:
Node: 16.19.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.19.1/bin/node
npm: 8.19.3 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.19.1/bin/npm
Watchman: 2022.08.29.00 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
Managers:
CocoaPods: 1.9.1 - /usr/local/bin/pod
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms: DriverKit 22.2, iOS 16.2, macOS 13.1, tvOS 16.1, watchOS 9.1
IDEs:
Xcode: 14.2/14C18 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
npmPackages:
expo: ~48.0.5 => 48.0.5
react: 18.2.0 => 18.2.0
react-native: 0.71.3 => 0.71.3
npmGlobalPackages:
expo-cli: 6.3.2
Expo Workflow: managed

[maticzav]

This is also an issue for us and I'd love to help in any way possible 🙂

[FrenchMajesty]

@maticzav I found a way to "hack" into working by sneakily triggering a resume right before the final call to stopRecording() so that the recording doesn't get ended while it's in the paused state.

Obviously that's not the desired behavior but that's at least a work-around

[vijaystroup]

@maticzav I found a way to "hack" into working by sneakily triggering a resume right before the final call to stopRecording() so that the recording doesn't get ended while it's in the paused state.

Can you elaborate or show the example in the expo snack you provided where you are doing this?
Are you calling recordingObj.startAsync() right before recordingObj.stopAndUnloadAsync()?

[FrenchMajesty]

Sure. @vijaystroup

  const stopRecording = async () => {
    await recording.startAsync(); // Recording must be in "playing" state to stop
    console.log('Stopping recording..');
    setRecording(undefined);
    await recording.stopAndUnloadAsync();
    await Audio.setAudioModeAsync({
      allowsRecordingIOS: false,
    });
    const uri = await recording.getURI();
    setStatus(undefined);
    console.log('Audio processed into a file');
    return uri;
  };

[tsapeta]

Probably it's been fixed in #23816
I'll release a new version of expo-av for SDK 49 in a few days

[karthik-hr]

Expo SDK 49 allow to install only expo-av v13.4.1.
Is new release happened? If so whats the latest version that supports SDK 49?

[tsapeta]

It was first released in 13.6.0. You can try to use it, there is a chance it will work fine with SDK 49 (not in Expo Go though).

[Emmanueldmlr]

I still have this issue with SDK 49