How to record video and maintain music playing in the background?

Question

Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I couldn't find a question similar to this. I have a custom camera/recorder that I made with AVFoundation and I was wondering how to keep the audio running from other apps while recording a video because right now it stops the audio (doesn't even pause it) and then records the video

If I am thinking correctly, could this be solved by adding something similar to this:

 [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryAmbient error:nil];

Answer 1

This fixed it.


[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayAndRecord
                                 withOptions:AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionDefaultToSpeaker | AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionMixWithOthers
                                       error:nil];