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Posted by Kirill Kraynov
Kirill Kraynov
2,760 Points

Passing audio from tableview to button in swift

Hello, guys! I've got two view controllers. The first one is the tableviewcontroller, the second one is detailviewcontroller with play button. So, I can't realize how to pass audio to button. I'm total newbie, but I really need the solution. Please, help me.

It should look like this:

Cell1 -> click -> open detail view, click BUTTON -> play sound 1

Cell2 -> click -> open detail view, click BUTTON -> play sound 2

Cell3 -> click -> open detail view, click BUTTON -> play sound 3

Cell4 -> click -> open detail view, click BUTTON -> play sound 4

1 Answer

Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points
Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points

Hi Kirill,

I'm a bit rusty on table views, and I've never worked with audio, so this is going to be a bit high-level. I'll take a look at some code from one of my projects tonight and update this answer if necessary.

If you know how to pass other data between table and detail view controllers, this will be no different. You could either pass the audio object (if that's how you're storing it), or just the string that represents the path to the audio file.

If you're passing the path, for example, you could very simply just do something like this:

DetailViewController.swift 
import MediaPlayer

var mediaPlayer: MPMoviePlayerController = MPMoviePlayerController()
mediaPlayer.contentURL = NSURL(string: "url/passed/to/detail/view")

@IBAction func hitPlay(sender: UIButton) {
    mediaPlayer.play()
}

This assumes you know how to pass data from one view to another. Let me know if you need help on how to do that. I'm also not super confident about how to actually play the sound...

Happy coding!

-Greg