Detect if a media (video or audio) is playing on iOS

Question

I'm working on App that uses Airplay. As part of the requirements, I need to detect if a video is playing on the device to stop the Airplay streaming.

Is there any way to achieve this?

Answer 1

You can use;

isOtherAudioPlaying

A Boolean value that indicates whether another app is playing audio.

AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().isOtherAudioPlaying

or

secondaryAudioShouldBeSilencedHint

A Boolean value that indicates whether another application is playing audio.

AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().secondaryAudioShouldBeSilencedHint