How to add a video in the UI in Swift - swift

Question

I want to be able to add a video (called "Logo-Animation4.mp4") into the UI in Swift, just like you can a UIImage in a UIImageView.
Right now, I've tried just putting an AVPlayer on the view, but it comes up with the default iOS AVPlayer, which contains the regular fullscreen, controls, and volume stuff that I don't want. I just want the video to play in the UI without any way to have the user interact with it.
I've thought about animating the video using a regular UIImageView's animation feature, but my video isn't that short, and it would be hard to get every single frame, and input it into the code.
How should I go about doing this?

Answer 1

To achieve what you are asking, you'll need to use AVPlayerLayer
Add a UIView outlet
#IBOutlet weak var videoView: UIView!
Import AVFoundation
Create player variables
var player : AVPlayer!
var avPlayerLayer : AVPlayerLayer!
Add the following code to your viewDidLoad
guard let path = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "Logo-Animation4", ofType:"mp4") else {
debugPrint("Logo-Animation4.mp4 not found")
return
}
player = AVPlayer(url: URL(fileURLWithPath: path))
avPlayerLayer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
avPlayerLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravity.resize
videoView.layer.addSublayer(avPlayerLayer)
player.play()
Add this method
override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
avPlayerLayer.frame = videoView.layer.bounds
}