Question

I have an iPad app and I have a video playing in a view. I would like to play video using Airplay but by pressing my own button.

I have set allows airplay = YES and so forth, this works if I enable the full controls, but I want to set no controls and have my own button to play the video using Airplay.

So far, I have found no information that would allow me to play a video on AppleTV without allowing the normal controls.

So just using an UIButton action to force the airplay, or at least get available devices and set it manually. Anything that would allow me to do this.

Answer 1

To answer my own question.

This is quite possible without jailbreak.

Here is apple’s own page explaining this, so this will pass the review process.

Apple developer library document explaining how to do this