# How to play audio in background on react-native android?

**URL:** <https://community.bitmovin.com/t/how-to-play-audio-in-background-on-react-native-android/3178>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** bitmovin-player, android, bitmovin, react-native\
**Created:** [August 2, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/how-to-play-audio-in-background-on-react-native-android/3178 "2024-08-02T05:01:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![developer1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.bitmovin.com/developer1/32/978_2.png) [@developer1](https://community.bitmovin.com/u/developer1)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/how-to-play-audio-in-background-on-react-native-android/3178/1 "2024-08-02T05:01:55Z")

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### Product

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### Question

I’m using Player for an audiobook app. on ios isBackgroundPlaybackEnabled: true and playing in the background. How to play audio in the background on react-native android?

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**Author:** ![Neil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.bitmovin.com/neil/32/118_2.png) [@Neil](https://community.bitmovin.com/u/Neil)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 8:43am UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/how-to-play-audio-in-background-on-react-native-android/3178/2 "2024-08-05T08:43:46Z")

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Hi @developer1  
Thank you for your post. Unfortunately, background playback on Android React Native is currently not supported. Please post this as a feature request on the Requests sub-forum [Requests - Bitmovin Community](https://community.bitmovin.com/c/requests/14)

Our Product teams monitors threads on subforum and it allows other people to vote on future product features.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/bitmovin/original/1X/1ab86334145095b0af9c5b924fa3ae6d920b6482.png) [@system](https://community.bitmovin.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2024, 9:44am UTC](https://community.bitmovin.com/t/how-to-play-audio-in-background-on-react-native-android/3178/3 "2024-08-05T09:44:01Z")

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