WebAudio in Ionic2

I’ve been playing around with playing sound using MediaPlugin and NativeAudioPlugin, but I would prefer to use WebAudio. Is this possible in ionic 2 (mobile, not web)?

I managed to synthesize a sine-wave with the following code (only tested using iOS emulator!)

let audioCtx = new (window["AudioContext"] || window["webkitAudioContext"])();

let gainNode = audioCtx.createGain();
gainNode.connect(audioCtx.destination);
gainNode.gain.value = 0.5;

let oscillator = audioCtx.createOscillator();
oscillator.connect(gainNode);
oscillator.type = 'sine'; // sine wave — other values are 'square', 'sawtooth', 'triangle' and 'custom'
oscillator.frequency.value = 1500; // in hertz

oscillator.start(0); // error if 'when' argument is not provided!
oscillator.stop(1);  // in seconds; error if 'when' argument is not provided!

Some issues though:

  1. if I write
let audioCtx = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)()

then the typescript compiler complains that window.AudioContext doesn’t exist.
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2. oscillator.start() or oscillator.stop() without arguments causes a runtime error: I had to write the ‘when’ argument explicitly to get it working (even though the API says the argument defaults to zero).

Any ideas about these issues?

I haven’t tried it on Android emulator, nor on a real device. Would that work?