Info
Allows setting the lock screen information such as artist, title, and artwork.
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/MediaPlayer/Reference/MPNowPlayingInfoCenter_Class/index.html
Install
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-nowplaying
Requires linking of MediaPlayer.framework
XCode project settings under General
-> Linked Framework and Libraries
Use
Use only the keys that you have available and leave the others out of the javascript object, that way only the correct keys will be sent to the MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.nowPlayingInfo
It will only overwrite the values that come in by cloning the old dictionary.
NowPlaying.set({
artwork: "http://www.domain.com/image.png",
albumTitle: "The Album Title",
trackCount: 10,
trackNumber: 1,
artist: "The Artist",
composer: "The Composer",
discCount: 1,
discNumber: 1,
genre: "The Genre",
persistentID: 12345,
playbackDuration: 500,
title: "The Title",
elapsedPlaybackTime: 30,
playbackRate: 1,
playbackQueueIndex: 1,
playbackQueueCount: 5,
chapterNumber: 1,
chapterCount: 2
});
When using in a browser environment it will simply log the calls to NowPlaying.set
to the console.