SwiftyRadio

Installation

Manual

Just drop the SwiftyRadio.swift file into your project. That's it!

CocoaPods

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Cocoa projects. To install SwiftyRadio with CocoaPods:

1. Make sure CocoaPods is installed.

2. Update your Podfile to include the following:

   use_frameworks!
   pod 'SwiftyRadio'

3. Run pod install.

4. In your code import SwiftyRadio like so: import SwiftyRadio

Swift Package Manager

The Swift Package Manager is a tool for managing the distribution of Swift code.

1. Update your Package.swift file to include the following:

   import PackageDescription
   
   let package = Package(
   	name: "My Radio App",
   	dependencies: [
   		.Package(url: "https://github.com/eaconner/SwiftyRadio.git"),
   	]
   )

2. Run swift build.

Prerequisites

In order to support background mode, append the following to your Info.plist:

<key>UIBackgroundModes</key>
<array>
	<string>audio</string>
</array>

If you want to stream from http:// URLs, append the following to your Info.plist:

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
	<key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
	<true/>
</dict>

Usage

In AppDelegate.swift add the following code after imports and before @UIApplicationMain.

// Create a variable for SwiftyRadio
var swiftyRadio: SwiftyRadio = SwiftyRadio()

In ViewController.swift include the following code in viewDidLoad()

// Initialize SwiftyRadio
swiftyRadio.setup()

// Setup the station
swiftyRadio.setStation("Classic Rock 109", URL: "http://198.27.70.42:10042/stream")

// Start playing the station
swiftyRadio.play()

Handling Remote Events

In order to handle remote events, you should do the following:

In AppDelegate.swift add the following code in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: UIApplication.shared.beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents()

Then add the following code in applicationWillTerminate: UIApplication.shared.endReceivingRemoteControlEvents()

License

SwiftyRadio is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.

Want to help?

Got a bug fix, or a new feature? Create a pull request and go for it!

Let me know!

If you use SwiftyRadio, please let me know about your app.