Play Video in Background using Avplayer

Question

In my iPhone application I want to keep play video when application enter in background mode.

I am using AVPlayer and not finding any way to play video in background

Answer 1

You can achive your requirement by using below sets of below code.

Swift: 4.2

Just, Create subclass of UIViewController

import UIKit
import AVFoundation

class VideoPlayer:UIViewController{
    var avPlayer: AVPlayer!
    var avPlayerLayer: AVPlayerLayer!
    var paused: Bool = false

    override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewWillAppear(animated)
        view.backgroundColor = .clear
        avPlayer?.play()
        paused = false
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        let theURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource:"VIDEO_NAME", withExtension: "VIDEO_TYPE") //VIDEO_TYPE -> MP4

        avPlayer = AVPlayer(url: theURL!)
        avPlayerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: avPlayer)
        avPlayerLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravity.resizeAspectFill
        avPlayer.volume = 0
        avPlayer.actionAtItemEnd = .none

        avPlayerLayer.frame = view.layer.bounds
        view.backgroundColor = .clear
        view.layer.insertSublayer(avPlayerLayer, at: 0)

        addPlayerNotifications()
    }

    deinit {
        removePlayerNotifations()
    }

    func addPlayerNotifications() {
        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self,
                                               selector: #selector(playerItemDidReachEnd(notification:)),
                                               name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime,
                                               object: avPlayer.currentItem)
        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(applicationWillEnterForeground), name: UIApplication.willEnterForegroundNotification, object: nil)
        NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(applicationDidEnterBackground), name: UIApplication.didEnterBackgroundNotification, object: nil)
    }

    func removePlayerNotifations() {
        NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name: NSNotification.Name.AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTime, object: nil)
        NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name:UIApplication.willEnterForegroundNotification, object: nil)
        NotificationCenter.default.removeObserver(self, name:UIApplication.didEnterBackgroundNotification, object: nil)
    }

    @objc func playerItemDidReachEnd(notification: Notification) {
        let p: AVPlayerItem = notification.object as! AVPlayerItem
        p.seek(to: CMTime.zero)
    }


    //App enter in forground.
    @objc func applicationWillEnterForeground(_ notification: Notification) {
        paused = false
        avPlayer?.play()
    }

    //App enter in forground.
    @objc func applicationDidEnterBackground(_ notification: Notification) {
        paused = true
        avPlayer?.pause()
    }

    override func viewDidDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidDisappear(animated)
        avPlayer.pause()
        paused = true
    }
}

Now, Almoast done. Just create UIViewcontroller class by using sub-class as below.

class Classname: VideoPlayer{
   override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
    }
}