Better documentation for how to play a sound

[cwohlman]

It wasn't obvious to me how to play a sound on ios, here's the requirement:

1. Place your sound in public/, e.g. pubic/beep.wav
2. Reference your sound by including www/application/ e.g. www/application/beep.wav

[raix]

Hmm, the sound referece should be the same in the api (paths could be off?)
https://github.com/raix/push/blob/master/lib/client/cordova.js#L117
https://github.com/raix/push/blob/master/lib/client/cordova.js#L76

I'll take pull requests if your up to it :)

[cwohlman]

Maybe I'm using an older version of the plugin, let me check that first
before I suggest any changes to the documentation.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Morten N.O. Nørgaard Henriksen <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hmm, the sound referece should be the same in the api (paths could be off?)
https://github.com/raix/push/blob/master/lib/client/cordova.js#L117
https://github.com/raix/push/blob/master/lib/client/cordova.js#L76

I'll take pull requests if your up to it :)

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#36 (comment).

[cwohlman]

Well I updated to the latest version, but I'm still a little confused.

When is onNotificationAPN called? I'm currently using the push
notification api like so: sound: "www/application/audio/alarm.wav" if the
code you referenced is being called that would seem to result in the
unlikely filename application/www/application/audio/alarm.wav.

(I'm using Push.send to send notifications)

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Joshua Ohlman codewriterohs@gmail.com
wrote:

Maybe I'm using an older version of the plugin, let me check that first
before I suggest any changes to the documentation.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Morten N.O. Nørgaard Henriksen <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hmm, the sound referece should be the same in the api (paths could be
off?)
https://github.com/raix/push/blob/master/lib/client/cordova.js#L117
https://github.com/raix/push/blob/master/lib/client/cordova.js#L76

I'll take pull requests if your up to it :)

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#36 (comment).

[raix]

I haven't been using the sound part myself - so its something worth investigating/testing/documenting
The onNotification is called on in app notifications - I'm not 100% sure about playing sounds on notifications when the app is in background or closed. But theres a difference there I think.

If we can trigger sound on closed apps its prop. the native sounds?

[cwohlman]

Audio notifications definitely work differently, I've figured out how to
send audio messages using this format:

        Push.send({
          from: "MyApp",
          title: fromUser.displayName(),
          text: doc.message,
          badge: 1,
          sound: doc.safetyConfirmation ? "www/application/audio/alarm.wav"
: "default",
          query: {
            userId: doc.toId
          }
        });

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Morten N.O. Nørgaard Henriksen <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

I haven't been using the sound part myself - so its something worth
investigating/testing/documenting
The onNotification is called on in app notifications - I'm not 100% sure
about playing sounds on notifications when the app is in background or
closed. But theres a difference there I think.

If we can trigger sound on closed apps its prop. the native sounds?

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#36 (comment).

[raix]

I agree that better documentation would be nice on this area - I haven't actually tested or used sound in my apps yet, so you guys are prop. better at it than me.

I'm closing this issue but referencing it from the Doc issue