Yanap (yet another native audio plugin)

This Cordova's plugin is an alternative to the cordova-plugin-media and cordova-plugin-nativeaudio/cordova-plugin-lowlatencyaudio plugins to play audio from native on Android. It may support iOS in the future.

Main features we have in mind while developing it are:

• gapless audio loops
• low latency playback for short sounds

Basic usage

var Yanap = cordova.plugins.Yanap;

var myBackgroundLoop = new Yanap.AudioInstance(Yanap.AUDIO_TYPE.LOOP);
myBackgroundLoop.load('audio/bg.mp3');
myBackgroundLoop.play();

// and when it is not needed anymore...
// myBackgroundLoop.stop();
// myBackgroundLoop.release();

API

Yanap.AUDIO_TYPE

Enum of available audio instance types:

Yanap.AUDIO_TYPE.LOOP  // for -relatively- long audio tracks that need to loop
Yanap.AUDIO_TYPE.MUSIC // for -relatively- long audio tracks
Yanap.AUDIO_TYPE.SOUND // for short audio files (fx, ui...)

Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS

Enum of possible audio instance status:

Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS.ERROR    // something bad happened, instance cannot be used anymore
Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS.EMPTY    // instance has been initialised
Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS.LOADING  // currently loading
Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS.LOADED   // loaded successfully
Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS.PLAYING  // currently playing
Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS.LOOPING  // set when looping the first time and re-triggered at each consecutive loop
Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS.STOPPED  // playback reached the end or has been manually stopped
Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS.RELEASED // all resources for this instance have been released

NB:

• LOOPING is available only for audio types LOOP
• PLAYING and STOPPED are not available for audio types SOUND

Yanap.AudioInstance(audioType, onStatusUpdate)

Audio instance constructor.

• audioType can be any value present in Yanap.AUDIO_TYPE.
• onStatusUpdate is an optional method that will receive a Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS as first parameter and a string containing additional information as second parameter (mostly used when an error happened).

var mySong = new Yanap.AudioInstance(
	Yanap.AUDIO_TYPE.MUSIC,
	function onStatusUpdate(status, additionalInfo) {
		if (status === Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS.ERROR) {
			return console.error('error: ' + additionalInfo);
		}
		console.log('new status: ' + status);
	}
);

This creation is successful even if audio type is invalid (it would fail during the loading).

Yanap.AudioInstance.load(filePath)

Used to load a file.

• filePath is a string:
  • relative to application asset folder if string starts with file:///android_asset/
  • else an absolute path if string starts with file://
  • else a relative path to application cache directory

// example 1: if you want to be sure that audio is ready before trying to play it
var myLaserFx = new Yanap.AudioInstance(Yanap.AUDIO_TYPE.SOUND, function (status) {
	if (status === Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS.ERROR) {
		return console.error('error: ' + additionalInfo);
	}
	if (status === Yanap.AUDIO_INSTANCE_STATUS.LOADED) {
		myLaserFx.play();
	}
});
myLaserFx.load('audio/laser.mp3');

// example 2: if you want to play automatically when loaded and don't care about errors
var myLaserFx = new Yanap.AudioInstance(Yanap.AUDIO_TYPE.SOUND);
myLaserFx.load('audio/laser.mp3');
myLaserFx.play();

Yanap.AudioInstance.play()

Used to start or resume an audio instance playback.

Yanap.AudioInstance.stop()

Used to interrupt an audio instance playback.

Yanap.AudioInstance.setVolume(channel1, channel2)

Set audio volume.

• channel1 and channel2 represents the left and right speakers.
• Values are in a range of 0.0 ~ 1.0.

Yanap.AudioInstance.release()

Has to be called when you don't need an audio instance anymore. It's automatically stopping playback before releasing all resources.

Yanap.AudioInstance.fileLength

Size of the audio file in bytes. Default is -1.

Yanap.releaseAll()

Static method used to stop and release all audio instances.