iOS - How can I display an 'AirPlay' popup menu in Swift?

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How can I display an AirPlay popup menu in my Swift project? (Many applications like Spotify can display one like below):

Look at adding a 'MPVolumeView' to your app. You don't actually create the menu but by having that control it will allow the user to see that menu when they click on it. — totiDev, Jul 03 '17 at 06:52

adamsfamily · Answer 1 · 2017-08-07T06:12:07.753

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After all it seems there is no easy and straightforward way to make a custom button display the system's Airplay menu.

However, @totiG pointer me to an interesting resource and I created a script that creates the standard Volume Control outside of the visible area of the screen a simulates a click on the Airplay button:

func showAirplay() {
    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()
}

After running this code the following popup menu appears:

edited Aug 07 '17 at 06:12

answered Jul 04 '17 at 15:13

adamsfamily

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Using this code I got only transparent rect without any slider or button. – Serhii Didanov Aug 06 '17 at 05:14
@SergeyDi: I have added a screenshot above to show what this code does in my environment. Doesn't it work the same way for you? What iOS version are you running? – adamsfamily Aug 07 '17 at 06:13

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '17 at 08:39

Here's a sweet little workaround to having to use the MPVolumeView's button.

Create a MPVolumeView, and hide it somewhere in the view hierarchy.
Whenever you want to display the picker:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] sendAction:NSSelectorFromString(@"_displayAudioRoutePicker") to:myVolumeView from:myView forEvent:nil];

Optional 3: On iPad you'll need to pass a UIEvent otherwise the popover will just be entered at the top of the screen and it'll look wonky. Capture the event from - (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event; and pass it into our call.

I know this is a bit late, but is this a private API? (Will my app be accepted to the app store if I use this?) — Minebomber, Sep 04 '17 at 14:24

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