How to disable youtube background playing in phonegap android

Question

My app gets rejected by playstore "modify your app to make sure it doesn't enable background play of YouTube videos", I am using phonegap for android and it seems that the youtube videos are still playing even if my app is in background mode.

I have tried to set:

<preference name="KeepRunning" value="false"/>

But still never worked, I even tried to add "pause" listeners for that issue, the listener is never triggered even though the "deviceready" listener is triggered.

Please I need some help here.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 21 '16 at 08:04

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Update the plugin to latest version (1.5.0) and use shouldPauseOnSuspend option set to yes

cordova.InAppBrowser.open('http://youtube.com', '_blank', 'shouldPauseOnSuspend=yes');

answered Sep 21 '16 at 08:04

jcesarmobile

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In which file do you suggest adding this line if you may?! – Christopher Nassar Sep 21 '16 at 08:18
I assumed you were using InAppBrowser plugin to play the videos, how are you playing them? – jcesarmobile Sep 21 '16 at 09:01
well I updated that plugin and tried that option, still the same, the video audio is still playing in background, I was using window.location.href at first, but same result – Christopher Nassar Sep 21 '16 at 09:28
@jcesarmobile does it work if i use iframe? I am facing hard time here. Tried almost all the answers from SO. No luck as of now. – Roxx Aug 19 '17 at 19:10
You mean iframe in the inappbrowser or iframe in the cordova app? – jcesarmobile Aug 19 '17 at 22:54
@jcesarmobile I have a question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45775517/disable-youtube-background-playing-in-cordova-android basically iframe in cordova app. – Roxx Aug 20 '17 at 04:32
@jcesarmobile I think you saved my day, you deserve a cookie :) thx a lot p.s.: https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/solved-violation-of-device-and-network-abuse-policy/145910/3 – David Dal Busco Oct 27 '18 at 14:49

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 21 '16 at 10:58

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I finally figured it out, adding to jcesarmobile approach, we need also to add this flag in the preference "ShouldPauseInAppBrowser" and set it to true.

Thanks all

answered Sep 21 '16 at 10:58

Christopher Nassar

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I don't understand, so what did you do? – jcesarmobile Sep 21 '16 at 21:10
you add "shouldPauseOnSuspend=yes" to the option of InAppBrowser and you add "ShouldPauseInAppBrowser" as preference in config.xml – Christopher Nassar Sep 22 '16 at 12:17
you shouldn't need that preference, going to look into it, thanks – jcesarmobile Sep 22 '16 at 14:26

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