tvOS: detecting pause button press

Asked May 24 '16 at 22:40

Active May 25 '16 at 18:22

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I am trying to detect when a user presses the play/pause button on the remote. I have created a tap gesture recognizer and attached it to the view of a AVPlayerViewController subclass.

    UITapGestureRecognizer *tapGestureRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(togglePlayPause:)];
    tapGestureRecognizer.allowedPressTypes = @[@(UIPressTypePlayPause)];
    [self.view addGestureRecognizer:tapGestureRecognizer];


- (void)togglePlayPause:(UITapGestureRecognizer *)tapGestureRecognizer
{
    NSLog(@"Toggle play/pause");
    if ([self playing])
    {
        NSLog(@"    Pause");
        [self.player pause];
    }
    else
    {
        NSLog(@"    Play");
        [self.player play];
    }
}

The gesture fires fine when the "play" button is pressed but does not when the "pause" button is pressed. Any ideas why?

edited May 25 '16 at 18:22

asked May 24 '16 at 22:40

Chris Horsfield

Here's how you do it: [How to detect Apple TV Siri Remote button presses?](http://stackoverflow.com/a/32585251/2108547). Edit your question to include your `togglePlayPause:` function. I'd image that's the issue. – Daniel Storm May 25 '16 at 11:08
No. The function isn't even being called when the "pause" button is being pressed. – Chris Horsfield May 25 '16 at 18:18
Mind the `:` in your `togglePlayPause`. Does your function take an argument? – Daniel Storm May 25 '16 at 18:20
Yea it returns the gesture recognizer – Chris Horsfield May 25 '16 at 18:24

tvOS: detecting pause button press

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