Swift. How do I remove the toolbar in an AVPlayerViewController

Question

I'm presenting an AVPlayerViewController with an AVPlayer and are displaying a pre-roll ad in it, but I want to remove the top and button bar, or make the user unable to dismis the ViewController before the ad is done:

Screnshot from iphone

How do I do that?

here's my code for my AVPlayerViewController implementation:

let preRollAdPlayer = AVPlayerViewController()

let player = AVPlayer()
preRollAdPlayer.player = player
if #available(iOS 9.0, *) {
    preRollAdPlayer.delegate = self
}

preRollAdPlayer.showsPlaybackControls = false

self.view?.window?.rootViewController?.presentViewController(preRollAdPlayer, animated: true, completion: {
    self.preRollAdPlayer.playPrerollAdWithCompletionHandler({ (error) -> Void in

        if (error != nil) {
            NSLog("Error Message: %@", error)
        } else {
            print("preRoll loaded")
        }

        self.preRollAdPlayer.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: {
            if (error != nil) {
                NSLog("Error Message: %@", error)
            }
        })
    })

})

Edit your post and provide a code snip of your AVPlayerViewController implementation. — OhadM, Feb 07 '16 at 13:14
Did you check that the actual showsPlaybackControls property is set to false ? — OhadM, Feb 07 '16 at 13:30
put a breaking point inside a relevant place (while the video player is shown), and in the console write: **po preRollAdPlayer.showsPlaybackControls** or, you can **print()** the preRollAdPlayer.showsPlaybackControls and look at the console for the result. — OhadM, Feb 07 '16 at 14:06
I just did that and it confirmed that showsPlaybackControls was set to false — Benja0906, Feb 07 '16 at 14:11
Take a look at the link below my answer, perhaps it will assist you. — OhadM, Feb 07 '16 at 14:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '16 at 12:42

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According to Apple, you should use showsPlaybackControls property:

A Boolean value that indicates whether the player view controller shows playback controls.

Set it to false:

Swift:

yourAvPlayer.showsPlaybackControls = false

Objective C:

[yourAvPlayer setShowsPlaybackControls:FALSE];

answered Feb 07 '16 at 12:42

OhadM

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I've just tried that and it dosen't do anything the toolbars are still there – Benja0906 Feb 07 '16 at 12:57
Have you looked in: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29090186/hide-controls-in-avplayerviewcontroller-only-at-start – OhadM Feb 07 '16 at 12:59

Swift. How do I remove the toolbar in an AVPlayerViewController

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