AVPlayercontroller - Adding Overlay Subviews - swift

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.

Answer 1

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.