Swift:Detect Volumn Button Press
From Hawk Wiki
Credit to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28471481/swift-detect-volume-button-press
Detect volume button press, also hide volume HUD
import MediaPlayer //Only for hidding Volume view func listenVolumeButton(){ let audioSession = AVAudioSession.sharedInstance() audioSession.setActive(true, error: nil) audioSession.addObserver(self, forKeyPath: "outputVolume", options: NSKeyValueObservingOptions.New, context: nil) //If you want to hide Volume HUD view var volumeView: MPVolumeView = MPVolumeView(frame: CGRectZero) view.addSubview(volumeView) } override func observeValueForKeyPath(keyPath: String, ofObject object: AnyObject, change: [NSObject : AnyObject], context: UnsafeMutablePointer<Void>) { if keyPath == "outputVolume"{ print("got in here") } }