Open ios/{APP_NAME}/Info.plist. Add 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 <plist> <dict> ... ... ... <key>UIBackgroundModes</key> <array> <string>audio</string> </array> </dict> </plist> Press r on the metro terminal Voila!
To make Application Icons for both iOS and Android, use https://appicon.co/ The advantage of appicon.co is that after adding the base icon image, it generates the set of standard icons, and automatically downloads them to a ZIP file named: AppIcons. Extract the zip archive, it contains appstore.png: For Apple AppStore playstore.png: For Google playstore android/: A folder of standard Icons for Android Assets.xcassets: A folder of standard Icons for iOS