509 - Introducing AirPlay 2

Today

Screen
Audio
Video

To an Apple TV or Speaker.

AirPlay 2 (Audio)

Wireless audio
Multi-room playback with very tight sync
Enhanced buffering on the speakers
Multi-device control
- Multiple devices can interact with the audio that is being streamed.

Adoption

Identify as long-form audio
- Music, podcasts or audiobooks
- Set AVAudioSession route sharing policy.
Add an AirPlay picker
- Allows users to route their content to AirPlay speakers without leaving the app.
- AVRoutePickerView
- AVRouteDetector to check if there are speakers available
Integrate with MediaPlayer framework
- Display the currently playing album art
- Receive playback / pause commands from other devices on the network
- MPRemoteCommandCenter
- MPNowPlayingInfoCenter
Adopt an AirPlay 2 playback APIs
- Large audio buffering capacity on speakers
  - minutes, not seconds
- Faster-than-real-time streaming to speakers
  - Robustnetss
  - More responsive playback
- AVPlayer / AVQueuePlayer
  - Easier way, if you have an URL of the content.
- AVSampleBufferAudioRenderer / AVSampleBufferRendersynchronizer
  - Harder way if you are preprocessing the content before sending it out.

Advanced playback scenarios

Availability