How to show the Now Playing Tab in CarPlay?

Question

I'm working on an app that will support CarPlay.It's an audio app.

I'm able to show 2 tabs (favourite and recommended) though I just don't know how to show the Now Playing Tab. I just cannot find any info regarding this. Do I have to manually show it, and the, how do I push? Do I have to do it manually? If so, what's the viewcontroller?

Thanks.

Answer 1

For the Transition to the Now Playing tab to work on both the simulator and an actual car, you need to make sure to

• call beginReceivingRemoteControlEvents on the current UIApplication, and
• set a nowPlayingIdentifier on the MPPlayableContentManager

before calling the completion handler in playableContentManager:initiatePlaybackOfContentItemAtIndexPath:completionHandler:.