iOS 4: Remote controls for background audio

Question

I\'m currently attempting to set up background audio for an app I\'m developing for iOS 4. The app doesn\'t have a dedicated music player viewController, howeve

Answer 1

I found a couple of solutions to receiving global remote control events on the Apple Developer Forums after a bit of searching.

One way is to subclass UIWindow and override its remoteControlReceivedWithEvent:.

The second, perhaps nicer way is to subclass UIApplication and override sendEvent:. That way, you can intercept all the remote control events and handle them there globally, and not have any other responders handle them later in the responder chain.

- (void)sendEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
     if (event.type == UIEventTypeRemoteControl) {
          // Handle event
     }
     else
          [super sendEvent:event];
}