Details

This PR implements sounds playing when message gets received (only when app is in foreground, i. e. not sounds for push notifications).

To play a sound I used react-native-sound ( and react-native-web-sound for web, underhood it uses howler.js). Initially I wanted to use expo-sound but was getting ridiculous errors and couldn't resolve them (on iOS and web).

Fixed Issues

$ #29835
PROPOSAL: N/A

Tests

1. Open app on two devices
2. Send message from one device to another

• Done sound -> when user sends a message/emoji/attachment/assigning task/sends money/request money (i. e. if user sends any content to another user we play done sound);
• Success sound -> when someone completes task/someone completes money request/someone sends money to you (regardless of who marks the task as done, i. e. sender or receiver);
• Attention sound -> someone mentioned you/someone request money from you/someone assigns a task to you (@here also should produce the sound);
• Received sound -> when message (excluding success/attention cases from above) received

3. go to setting and mute all sounds
4. verify step 2 but be sure there is no audio actually played
5. unmute sounds in app setting
6. go to a particular channel -> open settings of this channel -> open "Notify me about new messages" -> set it to "Mute"
7. verify step 2 but be sure there is no audio actually played (excluding "done" case - "done" sound should be played in any case).
8. set "Daily" mode and repeat step 2 - be sure that all sounds are playable
9. set "Immediately" mode and repeat step 2 - be sure that all sounds are playable
10. mute sound in app settings and for channel - be sure that step 2 will not play any sound at all

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

QA Steps

1. Open app on two devices
2. Send message from one device to another

• Done sound -> when user sends a message/emoji/attachment/assigning task/sends money/request money (i. e. if user sends any content to another user we play done sound);
• Success sound -> when someone completes task/someone completes money request/someone sends money to you (regardless of who marks the task as done, i. e. sender or receiver);
• Attention sound -> someone mentioned you/someone request money from you/someone assigns a task to you (@here also should produce the sound);
• Received sound -> when message (excluding success/attention cases from above) received

3. go to setting and mute all sounds
4. verify step 2 but be sure there is no audio actually played

• Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

PR Author Checklist

• I linked the correct issue in the ### Fixed Issues section above
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  • Android: Native
  • Android: mWeb Chrome
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