How to get benefits of native Audio Device

MacOSX and iOS
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Howdy

I am looking for some help getting a native iOSAudioIODevice running. Is there anyway to do this using audioDeviceManager?

Can I do this all from a Juce project, or must I create a project / files in XCode to get the native functionality.

 

I have not done much native iOS work, so really coming at this from a juce-centric view.


I've tried...

AudioIODevice* iosDevice = AudioIODeviceType::createAudioIODeviceType_iOSAudio()->createDevice

...but 1) I can't seem to use iOSAudioIODevice*

and of course 2) a normal AudioIODevice doesn't have something like getSessionProperty method.

 

So what can I do to create, and use the extra functionality of a native IOSAudioIODevice?

 

Thanks for any help.

2

On iOS there's no other type of AudioIODevice object. Just open a normal device and try dynamic_casting it to an iOSAudioIODevice if you need to.

3

I'm curious - what extra functionality this would open up?

4

I swear I've tried the dynamic cast, but I will again, thank you.

As for extra funcitonality, I'm trying to detect the headset, as talked about in this thread:

http://www.juce.com/forum/topic/possible-detect-headset

 

Part of my problem, and this is maybe a very basic thing, forgive me, but I can't even do

iOSAudioIODevice* iosDevice = anything

I get an error 'Unknown type name iOSAudioIODevice'....do I need to include the native file somewhere? I have included the frameworks needed.

 

Again I am coming at this very fresh, I've got a standalone app running but trying to convert it to iOS, and I'm quite new to that.

5

You don't need iOSAudioIODevice to detect the headset. AVAudioSession (as mentioned in the other thread) contains everything you need:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16187757/detect-if-headset-is-plugged-in-ios-5

AVAudioSession being an ObjectiveC interface, you need to write ObjC+ code to access it (and your source file needs a ".mm" extension).

6

Thanks again, daveb.

I'm going to dive into the apple documentation then for AVAudioSession a bit.

Back to Juce, I'm working out how I go about incorporating an mm file like that into a project. I'd love to just go through some sample code but I've not found much.

Currently, I've created the file via X-code (I created an Objective C class, then renamed file to *.mm).
I've got a class and function in it that compiles fine, call it iosSpecial, and it inherits from NSObject (default behavior when creating file in xcode).
I then changed my Main.cpp file to Main.mm, so I can include my new iosSpecial.h file (so far, so good).


Is that the correct technique for doing this? I'm learning a bit about it by reading this article:
http://philjordan.eu/article/mixing-objective-c-c++-and-objective-c++
I think I understand that I will need to wrap my Objective-C calls in C++ functions, then I should be good.

Does my understanding seem sound? I'm in really new territory here.

7

For the record - dissecting the article I linked, figuring out which files to make *.mm, and figuring out where they all need to live, I was able to get notification about the headset.

 

Glory be - thank yall so much for the help!!!

 

Still curious about my original question - how do I actually use the added functionality of an iOSAudioIODevice? Must the file I call it in be an mm not a cpp file?