How to play videos on CarPlay?

Question

I have a web link to a video, in iOS I can open it with AVFoundation/AVKit frameworks inside AVPlayerViewController/AVPlayer.

But how can I open it in CarPlay?

Text from CarPlay documentation:

You cannot play video media items directly using the Media Player framework. To play back videos containing MPMediaItem objects, use an AVPlayer object from AVFoundation. The system player also provides a way to play video items using the system apps.

extension AppDelegate: CPListTemplateDelegate {
    func listTemplate(_ listTemplate: CPListTemplate, didSelect item: CPListItem, completionHandler: @escaping () -> Void) {
        if let url = item.userInfo as? String {
            self.playVideo(url)
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

I will share the steps to follow to play a sample video on carplay

in Appdeligate.h Add the following header file

import CarPlay
import AVKit

Then add CPApplicationDelegate

Add these deligate methords

 // MARK: - CPApplicationDelegate methods
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didConnectCarInterfaceController interfaceController: CPInterfaceController, to window: CPWindow) {
    print("[CARPLAY] CONNECTED TO CARPLAY!")

    // Keep references to the CPInterfaceController (handles your templates) and the CPMapContentWindow (to draw/load your own ViewController's with a navigation map onto)
    self.interfaceController = interfaceController
    self.carWindow = window
    guard let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "video", ofType: "mp4") else
                        {
                            return
                        }
                        let videoURL = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: path)
                        let player = AVPlayer(url: videoURL as URL)
                        let playerController = AVPlayerViewController()
                        playerController.player = player
                        player.play()

            window.rootViewController = playerController
}

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didDisconnectCarInterfaceController interfaceController: CPInterfaceController, from window: CPWindow) {
    print("[CARPLAY] DISCONNECTED FROM CARPLAY!")
}

Also proceed the steps to add carplay entitlements