In our app, we want to be able to keep a video playing after the user has quit fullscreen mode. The video is a YouTube one, thus it uses YTPlayerView framework, which uses UIWebView and iframe player to play the video.
As you have probably noticed, in iOS 11, when a web video enters fullscreen, there is only one 'X' button at the upper left corner to quit fullscreen and pause the video, instead of two(one 'Done' at the top and one arrow at the bottom) like before.
I have been able to get a UIWindowDidBecomeHidden notification when the fullscreen quits, and play the video programmatically, but then I realize that if the user has already paused the video manually before quitting fullscreen, it will start playing nonetheless when he/she quits. However, adding something in the YTPlayerDelegate won't do much since the system will pause the video(sending the stateDidChange delegate) before sending the notification, so I cannot differentiate between a manual pause when fullscreen and a system pause when quitting fullscreen.
My question is, is there a way to detect leaving fullscreen action before the system pauses the video? If not, is there a native API to have the player keep playing? If not either, is this feature possible? How would I achieve it? Thanks.
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I am developing a music app that plays audio, regular video (such as mp4) and youtube videos. It has the proper background mode enabled, as the app plays audio and regular video correctly in the background.
The following issue appears only on the iPad, not on the iPhone.
Using the YouTube-Player-iOS-Helper on iOS 8, adding the youtube video content (YTPlayerView) to another view (as a subview) works great, even when playing. However, removing that YTPlayerView from its superview automatically pauses the playback, which isn't always the desired case (sending the app to the background causes the same effect).
Is it possible to change that behaviour?
I can rationalize manually resuming the playback when the app goes to the background, however, doing the same for the 'remove from superview scenario' causes the playback to stutter for a moment.
The issue can easily be reproduced with the sample app for 'YouTube-Player-iOS-Helper', by playing a video and then changing between tabs. On the iPhone, the player does NOT pause, but on the iPad, the player DOES pause.
If it's impossible, is there other Youtube SDKs that allow this behaviour and still adhere to the official terms and conditions?
Thanks
Figured this one.
The YTPlayerView will NOT pause, on iPad or iPhone, if you remove it from its superview and immediately add it to a view again (can be a different view). That view must be inside a view controller properly rooted in the view hierarchy (not detached).
I have an iOS APP, which can play videos.
It can play background.
When app will resign active, i remove the AVPlayerLayer, so the sound will go on.
And when app did become active, i attach the layer again, so the video come back.
All works well at iOS8 and iOS7.But....
Only when my player viewcontroller is not visible, i resign my app, and then come back and present my player viewcontroller, the video disappear (Only iOS7, iOS8 also works well)
anyone know about it?
I think what I'm looking for is the combination of existing settings that I can't quite put together in the right order. I have an app that plays sound clips using AVAudioPlayer. There is a start/stop button.
I would like any other apps' audio to continue until my app actually needs to play something.
When my app is launched with some iTunes music playing, that music continues correctly. When I press play in my app, the other audio correctly stops, and my app plays. I stop my player, switch back to the music app, and press play again. But now when I switch back to my own app, the music stops immediately.
I would like it to again wait until it needs to play something before killing the music app.
My best guess is that once I've used the player, it is in some kind of 'I need audio' state, and remains in that state. How do I resign this state?
Some iOS apps like Pandora continue playing audio after the app screen has been exited, and even after the device has been locked.
Is it possible to keep audio playing in this way from a browser tab? In other words, can I code an HTML5 page that plays audio and continues playing even after the iPhone is locked?
Yes, audio playing in a mobile Safari tab will continuously play even when multi-tasking or locking your screen. However, if you save the bookmark to the home screen, open, play audio, and then hop out to multi-task, the audio fades out.
Not possible... the browser displaying your page controls what happens when it is deactivated (sent to the background). HTML5 won't touch the behavior of the underlying browser as it relates to system events, so the only way to control background activity in iOS is to write a native app.
I am working on an app that needs to pause and unpause the audio stream coming from the ipod app. Is there any way to do that? I want to make a button that once you press it, it pauses the currently playing song on the ipod app. Pressing it again unpauses where the music left off. I am also working on a way to change the volume of the ipod app, is there anyway to do this that does not rely on the user manually moving a slider?
Any help at all would be great. Thanks!
you could use this framework if you want: Media Player Framework
Specially the MPMusicPlayerController Class
You have this:
Controlling Playback
– play
– pause
– stop
Managing Playback Mode and State
volume ( property )