ModernAVPlayer

ModernAVPlayer is a persistence AVPlayer wrapper

++ Cool features ++

• Get 9 nice and relevant player states (playing, buffering, loading, loaded…)
• Persistence player to resume playback after bad network connection even in background mode (bug from version 1.5.1)
• Manage headphone interactions, call & siri interruptions, now playing informations
• Add your own plug-in to manage tracking, events…
• RxSwift compatible
• Loop mode
• Log available by domain

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Known issue

From version 1.5.1, resume playback from background mode failed. If you have any suggestion, please help.

Use of mixWithOther AVAudiosession CategoryOptions is not a solution.

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Menu

• Requirements
• Installation
• Getting started
• Advanced
  • Custom Configuration
  • Remote Command
  • Plugin
  • RxSwift
• Communication

Requirements

• iOS 10.0+
• tvOS 10.0+

In order to support background mode, append the following to your Info.plist:

<key>UIBackgroundModes</key>
<array>
    <string>audio</string>
</array>

Installation

Swift Package Manager

Supported version: swift-tools-version:5.0

// Package.swift

import PackageDescription

let package = Package(
    name: "Sample",
    dependencies: [
        .package(url: "https://github.com/noreasonprojects/ModernAVPlayer", from: "X.X.X")
    ],
    targets: [
        .target(name: "Sample", dependencies: ["ModernAVPlayer"])
    ]
)

CocoaPods

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Cocoa projects. You can install it with the following command:

$ gem install cocoapods

CocoaPods 1.3+ is required to build ModernAVPlayer.

To integrate ModernAVPlayer into your Xcode project using CocoaPods, specify it in your Podfile:

source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '10.0'
use_frameworks!

target '<Your Target Name>' do
    pod 'ModernAVPlayer'
end

Then, run the following command:

$ pod install

Getting started

Create media from URL

let media = ModernAVPlayerMedia(url: URL, type: MediaType)

Create media from AVPlayerItem

let media = ModernAVPlayerMediaItem(item: AVPlayerItem, type: MediaType, metadata: PlayerMediaMetadata)

Instanciate the wrapper

let player = ModernAVPlayer()

Load and play the media

player.load(media: media, autostart: true)

Track on repeat

player.loopMode = true

↓ State / Command →	loadMedia	play	pause	stop	seek
Init	O	X	O	O	X
Loading	O	X	O	O	X
Loaded	O	O	O	O	O
Buffering	O	X	O	O	O
Playing	O	X	O	O	O
Paused	O	O	X	O	O
Stopped	O	O	O	X	O
WaitingNetwork	O	X	O	O	X
Failed	O	O	X	X	X

Advanced

Custom configuration

All player configuration are available from PlayerConfiguration protocol.
A default implementation ModernAVPlayerConfiguration is provided with documentation

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Remote command

If using default configuration file ( swift useDefaultRemoteCommand = true), ModernAVPlayer use automatically all commands created by ModernAVPlayerRemoteCommandFactory class Documention available in ModernAVPlayerRemoteCommandFactory.swift file

Custom command

Use your own PlayerConfiguration implementation with

...
useDefaultRemoteCommand = false
...

Create an array of commands conforming to ModernAVPlayerRemoteCommand protocol.

let player = ModernAVPlayer(config: YourConfigImplementation())
let commands: [ModernAVPlayerRemoteCommand] = YourRemoteCommandFactory.commands
player.remoteCommands = commands

You can use existing commands from public ModernAVPlayerRemoteCommandFactory class.

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Plugin

Use PlayerPlugin protocol to create your own plugin system, like tracking Plugin.

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RxSwift

Instead of using delegate pattern, you can use rx to bind player attributes.

Setup

Use pod 'ModernAVPlayer/RxSwift' in the Podfile

Usage

let player = ModernAVPlayer()
let state: Observable<ModernAVPlayer.State> = player.rx.state

Communication

• If you found a bug, make a pull request using Simple Audio template in the example section to demonstrate.
• If you have a feature request, open an issue.
• If you want to contribute, submit a pull request.