Android Crosswalk Plays Music Always At Max Volume

Hi all,

I had described this problem one week ago in the beginners questions sub forum but the topic didn’t get any attention there. So I try it again here.

In my game you can set the volume for sound and for music. Everything works with every browser and also in the emulator of the Intel XDK. Once exported and installed on android the music always plays at normal volume (+-0db) even if I hardcode -100DB it has no impact.

Did anyone else have seen this behaviour?

Ashley, as this seems to be a crosswalk bug would you kindly address this issue to the developers? I can also do it myself if you wish, but I don’t have the programming knowledge to tell them where exactly this happens in the script. I would highly appreciate if you would take a look at it.

One Possible Solution would be to import the music as “Sound” but then the decoding at start takes a huge amount of time, as android seems to have some problems with this.

With kind regards

joschi

IntelRobert can you give me any hint on this? should i report this anywhere?

Does no one else has volume controll in his games or i am the only one with this problem?

regards

I'm personally not having this issue and haven't seen anyone else with it. can you post a screenshot of your sound events and/or have you made a minimum build to test if it's not just something else. also have you tested on more then one device it might be your device

It sounds like another instance of a chromium//android issue

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issu ... ?id=240415

You can check by using C2 preview over wifi with chrome running on your android device. It will work in chrome on desktop, but not chrome on android.

Crosswalk issue: https://crosswalk-project.org/jira/browse/XWALK-1126

If you find that it works on chrome/android, but not crosswalk, then PM me with an example to test.

IntelRobert can you give me any hint on this? should i report this anywhere?

Does no one else has volume controll in his games or i am the only one with this problem?

regards

IntelRobert thank you for adressing this.

BUT the slider for the music works in chrome over wlan preview. the music takes a long time to start and sounds are not played at all. so this could be related, but it could also be another problem. in the menu sounds are fine (played on tab of a button) in the game itself the music is fine (after a long loading time) and gets played at the right volume, but not the sounds...

if you like you can test everything youself here: http://bytecrunch.org/games/ocp1/

hopefully this issue gets sorted out soon... i cant release any game with those kind of bugs (this and the jankyness which is discussed in other threads)

my programming knowledge is very limeted, but let me know if i can help in any way... i can also buy you a coffee or something <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

kind regards

Joschi...

j0schi

I see the same behavior in chrome and crosswalk 8. If you are seeing a difference, can you explain more? Here is what I did:

Start chrome on my nexus 4. Point it to: http://bytecrunch.org/games/ocp1/

Hard volume button controls music and effects. The sliders in your option page can control the effects, but not the music.

Then using the crosswalk test app: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing

I do the same thing and see the same behavior. Hard volume buttons work, Sliders control effects, but not music.

IntelRobert

Here is what i did:

1) start chrome on my samsung galaxy s2 Point it to http://bytecrunch.org/games/ocp1/

sounds and music work in menu, when i start the game only music works, however if i change the colume of the music in the options it takes effect in the game

2) start chrome on my desktop point it to http://bytecrunch.org/games/ocp1/ everything works. same with any other browser

3) start the app in the intel xdk emulator everything works

4) exported app with crosswalk wrapper -> install it on my galaxy s2 everything works exept the volume controll for the music

it seems that the bug you have with crome for android i only have with crosswalk

Chrome Version on my S2: 38.0.2125.102 2125102

Android: 4.1.2 GT-I9100

Blink: 537.36

Javascript: V83.28.71.15

regards

joschi

Exactly same thing here on S3, volume control for the music do not work at all in crosswalk.

IntelRobert i tested this issue sound toggle mute is not working on latest top 10 android devices.. cant release app due to this issue..

cooltaby thats only one issue for me, the othert is this here:

Hopefully chromium will figure this out fast... but those issues are open for a long time now and till now they dont got much attentione...

regards

j0schi today i will work to find any workaround and if not then i will remove the sound toggle option for now and then release it on Google as it is. in future i will update the game with sound feature. i dont want to go with coconjs as they are asking for $$$ to remove their spalsh screen

j0schi here is the work around what i did ....www. scirra.com/tutorials/1259/work-around-for-android-crosswalk-sound-toggle-issue

cooltaby thank you very much

well i wont mind if they charge a decent price, but i cant find it anywhere... also crosswalk has the jank issue, whith whith it is not possible to make a qualitativly good game...

so it seems like i just have to wait

will take a long time to fginish my main project anyways

j0schi if you want to remove splash screen just shout an email to , they will get back to you with amount details... still needs more points to send pm.. are you working on any big project ???

Hello,

j0schi if you want to remove splash screen just shout an email to , they will get back to you with amount details... still needs more points to send pm.. are you working on any big project ???

If you are still interested in removing the splash screen, send an email to sales[at]ludei.com. They will help you better than the support team .

Regards.