Comments on: Taking control of the volume buttons on iOS, like Camera+

By: madhu

madhu — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:46:59 +0000

Hi all ,
I used the RBVolumeButtons in my application to disable the effect of volume keys on audio sound. this working fine when the app is in foreground/ Active.
But the sound is getting effected when the app is playing sound from background.
How can i disable the effect of volume keys on audio sound when app is in background and plays sound.

By: madhu

madhu — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:50:37 +0000

Hi,
i am using the RBVolumeButtons in my application to disable the volume keys effect on audio sound when they pressed. This is working fine when the application is in foreground/Active.
How can i apply the same functionality when my app is in background and plays the sound in background(using background running task).

By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:14:19 +0000

Hi Randall,

Just to make you know that I just published a GitHub sample project inspired by your brilliant one: https://github.com/raneri/VolumeListener
Basically, it does the same thing that RBVolumeButtons does, but it uses a shared sound instance, so it doesn’t interrupt playing music or other sounds.

Thank you very much for your work!

By: m0rt1m3r

m0rt1m3r — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:22:18 +0000

Hi Randall,

Thanks for a great post!
I’d like to translate it to Polish and post it on my blog. Are you ok with this?
Of course you’d be named as the author and source would be linked.

Please let me know.
Best Regards!

By: Leon Wubbe

Leon Wubbe — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:13:40 +0000

This is not true. I have incorporated this functionality in my RC-Timer Pro App and it works on non-jailbroken iPhones.

Very good tutorial indeed

Regards, Leon

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:08:36 +0000

Hi,

just to clarify: This tutorial only works on a jailbroken iPhone. I’ve tried it without a jailbreak and it did not work. After i’ve jailbroken my iPhone it worked perfectly, so keep that in mind.

Very good tutorial btw

cheers Martin

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:17:43 +0000

Hey Randall,

I am quite a newbie in iPhone programming.
I was checking out your buttonStealer programme and was wondering if you think, you could also copy the button, rather than stealing.
What I mean is to keep it’s original function (turning the volume) and still be able to implement a counter of the hits of the + and – buttons.
Do you think, that’s possible!?

Cheers, Oli

By: Leon Wubbe

Leon Wubbe — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:11:00 +0000

This is great! But…

I have created a kind of stopwatch, wich starts/stops now using the volume control buttons. That works fantastic!

When I want to control the playback volume from within the application, using
[[MPMusicPlayerController applicationMusicPlayer] setVolume:volume];
That does not work. Is that possible? My App also plays sounds, and I want to control the volume of that sound.

By: Marian Ignev

Marian Ignev — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:26:49 +0000

Blah … Thnaks.

By: Randall

Randall — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:15:05 +0000

I would guess that you don’t. I haven’t tried it though.