AVPlayercontroller - Adding Overlay Subviews

Question

Depends upon the PlaybackControl Visibity How to show and hide the Custom Subview added in contentOverlayView?

I want to do like Youtube TVOS app did.

I tried with UIPressesEvent but it is not giving me the exact touch events. It is giving me these:

  override func pressesBegan(presses: Set<UIPress>, withEvent event: UIPressesEvent?) {
    for item in presses {
        switch item.type {
        case .Menu:
            self.customViews.alpha = 0
        case .PlayPause:
            self.player?.pause()
            self.customViews.alpha = 0
        default:
            self.setVisibilityToPreviewView()
        }
      }
    }

 func setVisibilityToPreviewView () { //This wont work in all cases.
      if self.previewView.alpha == 1 {
         self.previewView.alpha = 0
      } else {
         self.previewView.alpha = 1
      }
    }

But with this Touch events i can only show and hide the subviews. It should be hidden when the playbackcontrol is Hidden.

If I get the PlayBackControl Visibility values I don't need to worry about hiding these subviews.

Apple is Using AVNowPlayingPlaybackControlsViewController. It is not open for developers.

So I need to find some other better way to do this.

Please guide me how to do it.

This question is unclear. Please elaborate on your problem statement and what you have tried already. — JAL, Apr 20 '16 at 15:24

Adnan Aftab · Answer 1 · 2016-04-22T09:44:58.963

You can register a tapGesture recognizer and then set its allowPressTypes property to UIPressType.Select, something like this

let tapRecognizer = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "onSelect:")
tapRecognizer.allowedPressTypes = [NSNumber(integer: UIPressType.Select.rawValue)];
self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tapRecognizer)

And inside your action button show or hide custom overlays.

Example: Add this code inside a view controller and on tap (selecting at empty area on front of remote, touch area) you will see a message on console.

override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "onSelect")
        tapGesture.allowedPressTypes = [NSNumber(integer: UIPressType.Select.rawValue)]
        self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture);
    }
    func onSelect(){
        print("this is select gesture handler method");
    }

Update: Below is the code which will create AVPlayerController and will register tapGestureRecognizer to playervc.view.

override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidAppear(animated)
        playContent()
    }
    func playContent(){
        let urlString = "<contentURL>"
        guard let url = NSURL(string: urlString) else{
            return
        }
        let avPlayer = AVPlayer(URL: url)
        let playerVC = AVPlayerViewController()
        playerVC.player = avPlayer
        self.playerObj = playerVC

        let tapGesture = UITapGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "onSelect")
        tapGesture.allowedPressTypes = [NSNumber(integer: UIPressType.Select.rawValue)]
        self.view.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture);

        playerVC.view.addGestureRecognizer(tapGesture)
        self.presentViewController(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil);

    }

Give a try to this, I think it should work fine.

This is for TVOS. And am using Remote control. In AVPlayerViewController how i can add this gesture. If i am adding this to self.view it is not working.. so did that to ContentOverlayview. that too not working — Manikandan, Apr 22 '16 at 06:35
Yes I know that its TVOS and it should work. Add it to whatever view is on top. — Adnan Aftab, Apr 22 '16 at 09:02
Thanks for your answer. But how to get visibility of PLAYBACKCONTROL in player. Need to check its visibility and hide the contents. — Manikandan, Apr 24 '16 at 20:35
You can check yourCustomView.hidden value for any view to check if its hidden or visible. — Adnan Aftab, Apr 25 '16 at 13:06
if PlaybackControl is hidden - Hide the subviews otherwise it should be visible. we can't go with yourCustomView.hidden value. Please check my updated Question. — Manikandan, Apr 25 '16 at 13:26
There is no public API for that or Notification which will specifically tell you that you Playback Controls are now visible. I would suggest that you create some functionality by keep state of the player in context that when playback controls will be visible. Like touch, press & player states. — Adnan Aftab, Apr 26 '16 at 08:06

AVPlayercontroller - Adding Overlay Subviews

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