How to connect the audio to bluetooth when playing using AVPlayer

Question

I am playing the audio from an url using AVPlayer, but when the iPhone is connected to a Bluetooth device it is not playing via Bluetooth, how to play via Bluetooth if it is

Answer 1

You need to set a category and options on the AVAudioSession.

Try this when the app starts:

//configure audio session
NSError *setCategoryError = nil;
BOOL setCategorySuccess = [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance]
                           setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback
                           withOptions:AVAudioSessionCategoryOptionAllowBluetooth
                           error:&setCategoryError];

if (setCategorySuccess) {
    NSLog(@"Audio Session options set.");
} else {
    NSLog(@"WARNING: Could not set audio session options.");
}