ios - Get name of AirPlay device using AVPlayer

Question

When AirPlay is enabled in a MPMoviePlayerController, it displays a text "This video is playing on device name ". When using AirPlay with an AVPlayer, is there any way to programatically get the device name?

Answer 1

Starting from iOS7 AudioToolbox API for currentRoute becomes deprecated:

Apple instead made currentRoute API available to you in AudioSession, which allows retrieving it's port information as well as listening to audioRouteChangeNotification in a nice way:

NSString* airplayName = [self activeAirplayOutputRouteName];
if (airplayName) {
    //airplay is active

}

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(audioRouteHasChangedNotification:) name:AVAudioSessionRouteChangeNotification object:[AVAudioSession sharedInstance]];

(what you want to get is the portType of portDescription of audioSession.currentRoute):

- (NSString*)activeAirplayOutputRouteName
{
    AVAudioSession* audioSession = [AVAudioSession sharedInstance];
    AVAudioSessionRouteDescription* currentRoute = audioSession.currentRoute;
    for (AVAudioSessionPortDescription* outputPort in currentRoute.outputs){
        if ([outputPort.portType isEqualToString:AVAudioSessionPortAirPlay])
            return outputPort.portName;
    }

    return nil;
}

- (void)audioRouteHasChangedNotification:(NSNotification*)notification
{
    //do something
}