How to install versión 0.6.0

[dax99993]

Hello,
I am new to react-native and expo. And I want to build an app processing a stream of data directly from the microphone. I am only interested in developing for Android and the web. But I am not able to install any of the 0.6.0 rc.

After installing react-native-audio-api in a blank expo development build by

npx expo install react-native-audio-api

And executing

npx expo run:android

I receive the following error

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'iosBackgroundMode')
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'iosBackgroundMode')
    at plugin (/home/dax9999/Programming/react-native/audio-api-test/node_modules/react-native-audio-api/src/plugin/withAudioAPI.ts:70:5)
    at plugin (/home/dax9999/Programming/react-native/audio-api-test/node_modules/@expo/config-plugins/src/plugins/withRunOnce.ts:38:54)
    at withRunOnce (/home/dax9999/Programming/react-native/audio-api-test/node_modules/@expo/config-plugins/src/plugins/withRunOnce.ts:24:10)
    at withPlugin (/home/dax9999/Programming/react-native/audio-api-test/node_modules/@expo/config-plugins/src/plugins/withRunOnce.ts:38:12)
    at withStaticPlugin (/home/dax9999/Programming/react-native/audio-api-test/node_modules/@expo/config-plugins/src/plugins/withStaticPlugin.ts:153:12)
    at reduce (/home/dax9999/Programming/react-native/audio-api-test/node_modules/@expo/config-plugins/src/plugins/withPlugins.ts:20:59)
    at Array.reduce (<anonymous>)
    at withPlugins (/home/dax9999/Programming/react-native/audio-api-test/node_modules/@expo/config-plugins/src/plugins/withPlugins.ts:20:18)
    at withConfigPlugins (/home/dax9999/Programming/react-native/audio-api-test/node_modules/@expo/config/src/plugins/withConfigPlugins.ts:19:25)
    at fillAndReturnConfig (/home/dax9999/Programming/react-native/audio-api-test/node_modules/@expo/config/src/Config.ts:152:52)

How do I make it work?
Hope someone has the time and is willing to help me.

Note:
I do not know if this question should be put in a discussion or should I move it to other section.

[Valentin-Rault]

Did you add the react-native-audio-api plugin in your app.json?
The error is most likely because you have something like this
plugins: ["react-native-audio-api]

If you look at the withAudioAPi.ts file you will see that this is calling the function with the second argument being undefined
Then trying to destructure the object here will throw this error

const withAudioAPI = (config, {
  iosBackgroundMode = true,
  androidForegroundService = true,
  androidFSPermissions = [],
  androidFSTypes = []
}) => {

The fix:
do something like this in your app.json

plugins: [
["react-native-audio-api", 
{"iosBackgroundMode": true}
]

You can specify the other values as well if you need to. Hope this helps

[dax99993]

Thank you for replying, now it's working. I can't believe how I missed a simple configuration step.

[Valentin-Rault]

Glad I could help, I can see that the doc is lacking when it comes to the config. There is no mention of the expo plugin nor the metro config unless you start looking in the code.
But it looks like there is some issues and PRs on their way to fix this :)

[maciejmakowski2003]

Fix for that issue will be released in 0.6.1. It will be possible to build without plugin and ofc we will provide info about it in docs