fix(android): background recording with screen off - #49
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…ervice Pass enableBackgroundRecording: true to the expo-audio config plugin so it wires up the AudioRecordingService foreground service on Android. Also add POST_NOTIFICATIONS permission required by the service notification. Without the plugin option, enableBackgroundRecording defaults to false and the recorder's useForegroundService flag is never set, so Android kills the microphone when the screen turns off. Requires a native rebuild — not deliverable via OTA update. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ervice (#49) Pass enableBackgroundRecording: true to the expo-audio config plugin so it wires up the AudioRecordingService foreground service on Android. Also add POST_NOTIFICATIONS permission required by the service notification. Without the plugin option, enableBackgroundRecording defaults to false and the recorder's useForegroundService flag is never set, so Android kills the microphone when the screen turns off. Requires a native rebuild — not deliverable via OTA update. Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
expo-audioforeground service on Android by passingenableBackgroundRecording: trueto the config plugin (was previously a bare string with no options, so the flag defaulted tofalse)android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONSrequired by the foreground service notificationWhy it was broken
expo-audio 1.1+ships a nativeAudioRecordingServicethat keeps recording alive when the screen turns off, but it only activates whenenableBackgroundRecording: trueis passed to the plugin. Without it,useForegroundServicestaysfalseon every recorder and Android kills the microphone on screen-off.Important
This is a native change — requires
eas build --platform android, not an OTA update.🤖 Generated with Claude Code