Custom RPSystemBroadcastPickerView?

Question

I'm launching system broadcasting picker used for screen recording on iPhone with RPSystemBroadcastPickerView button and it works properly. However it seems that there is no way to customize the look of this RPSystemBroadcastPickerView button. RPSystemBroadcastPickerView always shows a black dot with a black circle around it and it seems that even the color of this icon cannot be changed. I was also trying to show that system picker popup view (with "Start Broadcast" button which is showed after clicking on RPSystemBroadcastPickerView) with RPBroadcastActivityViewController.load method however it seems that with this method it is not possible to launch the same system popup picker view which is presented when using RPSystemBroadcastPickerView button.

Therefore my question is: is there any way to customize the look of this RPSystemBroadcastPickerView button or just launch the same system broadcasting popup picker view which is launched by RPSystemBroadcastPickerView with a normal UIButton?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 23 '21 at 18:42

so unfortunately there's no way to change look of this button. However there's a trick which you can use to show broadcast picker with regular UIButton. Just have system picker button added somewhere in the view hierarchy and use this code:

self.picker = RPSystemBroadcastPickerView()
// ...
for view in self.picker.subviews {
    if let button = view as? UIButton {
        button.sendActions(for: .allEvents)
    }
}

I'm pretty sure it would go against apple's UX recommendations, so use wisely and at your own risk.

Custom RPSystemBroadcastPickerView?

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