Xamarin forms receive control centre event while playing songs in background

Question

I am using plugin in xamarin to play songs on iOS and Android device which is working out perfectly.My problem is that I am unable to find way to listen to next and previous button press in control centre.

I have read blog for reference,but it doesn't seem to provide enough info to achieve solution.

Answer 1

You can find the related information in its README.md.

• If you want to enable RemoteControl features, you will have to override UIApplication.RemoteControlReceived(UIEvent) and forward the event to the MediaManagerImplementation.MediaRemoteControl.RemoteControlReceived(UIEvent) method. See the sample application for more details.

Follow these steps:

1. Create a SampleApplication class inherit from UIApplication To implement RemoteControlReceived(UIEvent) as its sample code, like this:

   using Foundation;
   using Plugin.MediaManager;
   using UIKit;
   
   namespace MediaSample.iOS
   {
       [Register("SampleApplication")]
       public class SampleApplication: UIApplication
       {
           private MediaManagerImplementation MediaManager => (MediaManagerImplementation) CrossMediaManager.Current;
   
           public override void RemoteControlReceived(UIEvent uiEvent)
           {               
              MediaManager.MediaRemoteControl.RemoteControlReceived(uiEvent);
           }
       }
   }
   

   MediaManager.MediaRemoteControl.RemoteControlReceived(uiEvent) helps you to handle the next/previous/pause/play events. To see how it works, you can refer here.

2. Don't foget to add the SampleApplication to UIApplication.Main() in Main.cs like this:

    UIApplication.Main(args, "SampleApplication", "AppDelegate");