iOS - How do you know if the device is playing something?

Question

I need to know when an HTML video started playing. I see that when it does this little play icon appears in the status bar.

I would like to know if my iOS device has that little play icon in the status bar or not.

Is there a method to call in order to know it?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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Normally you would capture one of these notifications:

MPMoviePlayerWillEnterFullscreenNotification
MPMoviePlayerDidEnterFullscreenNotification

But since it's from a UIWebView you will not receive these notifications, You might try something like this.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

Community

answered Apr 15 '12 at 11:26

Alon Amir

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 15 '12 at 09:09

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Html5 specifies

media.played
Returns a TimeRanges object that represents the ranges of the media resource that the user agent has played.

But I'm not sure how many browsers yet support this. The specification suggests that no browser has full support for the API.

answered Apr 15 '12 at 09:09

nes1983

Hi nes, i see you edited the title of my question. But like this meaning is different! Infact mine was not a question about html5, but about iOS. – Abramodj Apr 15 '12 at 11:26

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