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spinlight
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July 14, 2013
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Apps requesting access to microphone (iOS7)

  • July 14, 2013
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This may be something with iOS 7, but I'm seeing our apps ask for access to the microphone at launch. What triggers this? We aren't using the microphone in the app. At least not that we are aware of.

Edit: We have 12 apps in the App store. All of them launch with a warning requesting microphone access in iOS 7. You can choose don't allow because the apps don't use the microphone, but we need to figure out how to remove this. Our apps range from air 3.5 to 3.7 I believe. It's affecting all them in the same way. They all show up under the privacy tab in iOS 7 with a toggle.

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TomLewis2
Participant
October 7, 2013

Using flash 5.5, updating to Air3.9beta, need to edit AdobeARI2_6.xml, AiriPhone.xml and Android.xml with the player version number.  What is the player version number for AIR 3.9 beta? For future updates, how do I find it from the downloaded SDK package?

Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
October 7, 2013

The release notes, here:

http://labsdownload.adobe.com/pub/labs/flashruntimes/shared/air3-9_flashplayer11-9_releasenotes.pdf

includes a section called Build Changes. That tells you the one from September 24th is 3.9.0.960.

If you were using CS6 or CC you would also see the build number in the Manage AIR SDK dialog, and in the properties panel.

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TomLewis2
Participant
October 7, 2013

Thanks Colin. Now I'm wondering about the iOS7 additional icon sizes and Flash CS5.5 - you mention using the command line to build the app to include the new icon sizes. Where can I get more info on compiling from the command line for a Flash 5.5 project?

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Anonymous
September 14, 2013

My app was just rejected because of this microphne request. Is it enough to remove all sounds? That would be a quick fix for me, so I can upload a new version.

Lars Laborious
Lars Laborious
Legend
September 14, 2013

It's the someSound.play(); that triggers the microphone request, so yes removing sounds will fix it, or just publish the app with the AIR 3.9 beta.

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Anonymous
September 14, 2013

Thanks for the quick answer. Actually, I had one sound in a frame. It seems that that will trigger it as well.

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TopoBuilder
Inspiring
August 20, 2013

The same thing is happening to my apps under iOS 7.

Really annoying and not easy to explain to our users.

Is there any solution for this problem?

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karjusika1
Participant
August 27, 2013

This should be fixed in the latest air update. http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1281043?tstart=0

  • 3613819 - [iOS7]on using Sound.play app asks permission for accessing the Microphone even when microphone API is not used in the app.

I updated air and tested in a new empty project. I still get the microphone request popup.

I'm targetting swf version 21.

CTAirSdkVersion tag is 3.8.0.1290 in app's Info.plist so I'm using the latest air sdk.

I'm testing on ipod touch 5g running iOS7 beta 6.

This is the only code:

var sound : Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest("sound.mp3"));

sound.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, function(e:Event) : void {

     sound.play();

});

Am I missing something or does the bug still exists?

Pahup
Adobe Employee
Pahup
Adobe Employee
August 27, 2013

Apologies, that's an error in the announcment, we've made the edits. The bugs are still in known issues list, we're working on them,

-Thanks

Pahup

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