Setting and accessing iOS seek bar on lock screen

Question

I am playing a audio file in iOS app using AVQueuePlayer/AVFoundation. i have set the MPNowPlayingInfoCenter's now playing information like album title, artist, Artwork, like this

NSMutableDictionary *albumInfo = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
MPMediaItemArtwork *artworkP;
UIImage *artWork = [UIImage imageNamed:album.imageUrl];
[albumInfo setObject:album.title forKey:MPMediaItemPropertyTitle];
[albumInfo setObject:album.auther forKey:MPMediaItemPropertyArtist];
[albumInfo setObject:album.title forKey:MPMediaItemPropertyAlbumTitle];
[albumInfo setObject:artworkP forKey:MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork];
[[MPNowPlayingInfoCenter defaultCenter] setNowPlayingInfo:albumInfo]

and also accessing remote event in application delegate for play,pause, next, previous event from lock screen. But the seek bar is not accessible, even i didn't find any option to set seek property.

i want to set seek property and want to access the seek slider change event in my app.

Answer 1

I believe the only way to support forward and backward seeking is by the previous/advance buttons (they send a begin/end seeking notification when held down).

UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlBeginSeekingBackward, UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlBeginSeekingForward, 
UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlEndSeekingBackward, UIEventSubtypeRemoteControlEndSeekingForward

Based on some of the other questions and documentation the seek bar is only accessible via Apple's own apps (https://stackoverflow.com/a/20142141/535632, https://stackoverflow.com/a/20909875/535632). According to that last answer, it appears some apps (notably Spotify) route their music through the music player to utilize the seek bar.

Answer 2

You can use MPRemoteCommandCenter after iOS 7