react-native-audio-recorder-player: [SOLVED] Remote audio url sent from Android won't playback on iOS device

Version of react-native-audio-recorder-player

3.0.2, react native: 0.63.4

Platforms you faced the error (IOS or Android or both?)

iOS

Expected behavior

Play remote audio files sent from android

Actual behavior

If an Android device sends an audio message to an iOS device then the audio player won’t play that file. This lib is being used in a chat room where users exchange audio messages.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Recording function:

import { Dirs, FileSystem } from "react-native-file-access";

const onStartRecord = async () => {
    ReactNativeHapticFeedback.trigger(
      hapticTriggerType as HapticFeedbackTypes,
      hapticOptions
    );
    const path = Platform.select({
      ios: "remote_audio/remote_audio_message.m4a",
      android: `${Dirs.CacheDir}/remote_audio/remote_audio_message.m4a`
    });
    try {
      const audioSet: AudioSet = {
        AudioEncoderAndroid: AudioEncoderAndroidType.AAC,
        AudioSamplingRateAndroid: 44100,
        AudioSourceAndroid: AudioSourceAndroidType.MIC,
        AVEncoderAudioQualityKeyIOS: AVEncoderAudioQualityIOSType.medium,
        AVFormatIDKeyIOS: AVEncodingOption.aac,
        AVNumberOfChannelsKeyIOS: 2,
        OutputFormatAndroid: OutputFormatAndroidType.AAC_ADTS
      };
      const meteringEnabled = false;
      stopPlayer().catch((e) =>
        console.log(`error while stopping player of messages bubbles, error: ${e}`)
      );
      await FileSystem.mkdir(`${Dirs.CacheDir}/remote_audio`).catch((e) => console.log(e));
      await audioRecorderPlayer.startRecorder(path, audioSet, meteringEnabled);
      // @ts-ignore
      audioRecorderPlayer.addRecordBackListener((e: RecordBackType) => {
        setRecord({
          recordSecs: e.currentPosition,
          recordTime: audioRecorderPlayer.mmssss(Math.floor(e.currentPosition))
        });
      });
    } catch (e) {
      console.log(e);
    }
  };

While using version 2.7.0 it works like a charm. Upgrading to 3.0.2 won’t play the remote audio file sent by an Android device with no errors on metro or xCode console. It will just sit there and wait after tapping “play” button.

Weird thing is that the audio files being sent from iOS can be played from the remote url just fine (on iOS device). Tried to change the AudioEncoderAndroidType and OutputFormatAndroid into different encoders but the issue persists.

On Android everything works as it should.