Airplay button does not appear in player controls using AVPlayer

Question

I created a video player using AVPlayer and AVPlayerViewController. I set the " allowsExternalPlayback " property to true, and the " usesExternalPlaybackWhileExternalScreenIsActive " property to true. But still, I do not get Airplay Icon in the player controls.

 player = AVPlayer(URL: url!) player!.allowsExternalPlayback = true player?.usesExternalPlaybackWhileExternalScreenIsActive = true 

I am running my application on ios 9.2.

Answer 1

For this you need to add MPVolumeView. You can read about it here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/AirPlayGuide/EnrichYourAppforAirPlay/EnrichYourAppforAirPlay.html

Answer 2

 func appleTv() { let rect = CGRect(x: -100, y: 0, width: 0, height: 0) let airplayVolume = MPVolumeView(frame: rect) airplayVolume.showsVolumeSlider = false self.view.addSubview(airplayVolume) for view: UIView in airplayVolume.subviews { if let button = view as? UIButton { button.sendActions(for: .touchUpInside) break } } airplayVolume.removeFromSuperview() }