Resume AVPlayer video playback after app become active

Question

I write custom player from AVPlayer for video playback. According to Apple docs set the video layer:

    self.player = [IPLPlayer new];
    self.player.playerLa         


        

Answer 1

The trick is to detach all video layers from their players when the app did enter background and reattaching them when the app did become active again.

So in your -applicationDidEnterBackground: you got to trigger a mechanism that results in

avPlayerLayer.player = nil;

and in your -applicationDidBecomeActive: you reattach the player like

avPlayerLayer.player = self.avPlayer;

Also have a look at this Tech Note (QA1668) from Apple.