How to hide controls in YTPlayerView? - swift

Question

I am using youtube-ios-player-helper library to play youtube videos in my app.
There is a small time delay between you press play button and video starts playing in the full screen. So I want to hide controls in this between time.
How can I do this?
Here what I have right now in Swift:
protocol YouTubePlayerViewDelegate {
func playVideo(id: String)
}
class DeferredYouTubePlayerView : UIView, EventActionable, YTPlayerViewDelegate {
var youtubeId: String!
var origin: String!
var playerWidth: Int!
var imageView: ImageLoadingBackgroundView?
var playImageView: UIImageView?
var player: YTPlayerView?
var backDropView: UIView?
var eventCategory:String!
var touchCancelled = false
let playerVars:[NSObject:AnyObject] = [
"playsinline":0,
"autoplay" : 0,
"modestbranding" : 1,
"origin":MetroManager.sharedInstance.selectedMetro!.baseURL
]
var delegate : YouTubePlayerViewDelegate?
func loadVideo() {
backgroundColor = UIColor.blackColor()
if imageView == nil {
imageView = ImageLoadingBackgroundView()
imageView!.setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints(false)
imageView?.constrain(.FillParent(self))
}
if playImageView == nil {
playImageView = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: "play_button"))
playImageView?.constrain(.Height(42))
playImageView?.constrain(.Height(42))
playImageView?.constrain(.CenterInParent(imageView!))
}
if let url = buildImageURL() {
imageView?.alpha = 1
imageView!.imageURL = url
} else {
imageView?.alpha = 0
}
if backDropView == nil {
backDropView = UIView()
backDropView?.backgroundColor = UIColor.blackColor()
backDropView?.constrain(.CenterInParent(self))
backDropView?.constrain(.FillParent(self))
addSubview(backDropView!)
}
if player == nil {
player = YTPlayerView()
player?.constrain(.CenterInParent(self))
player?.constrain(.FillParent(self))
player?.delegate = self
player!.loadWithVideoId(youtubeId, playerVars: playerVars)
addSubview(player!)
bringSubviewToFront(imageView!)
}
}
func buildImageURL() -> NSURL? {
return NSURL(string: "http://img.youtube.com/vi/\(youtubeId)/0.jpg")
}
override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<NSObject>, withEvent event: UIEvent) {
if let playImageView = playImageView {
playImageView.image = UIImage(named: "play_button_highlighted")
}
}
//If the user moves their finger, they probably want to slide to the next view, cancel touches
override func touchesMoved(touches: Set<NSObject>, withEvent event: UIEvent) {
if let playImageView = playImageView {
playImageView.image = UIImage(named: "play_button")
}
touchCancelled = true
}
func playerView(playerView: YTPlayerView!, didChangeToState state: YTPlayerState) {
switch state {
case .Buffering:
fallthrough
case .Playing:
hidePoster()
case .Ended:
fallthrough
case .Paused:
showPoster()
default:
()
}
}
func hidePoster() {
UIView.animateWithDuration(DEFAULT_ANIMATION_TIME, animations: { () -> Void in
self.imageView?.alpha = 0
})
}
func showPoster() {
UIView.animateWithDuration(DEFAULT_ANIMATION_TIME, animations: { () -> Void in
self.imageView?.alpha = 1
})
}
override func touchesEnded(touches: Set<NSObject>, withEvent event: UIEvent) {
println("ended")
if let playImageView = playImageView {
playImageView.image = UIImage(named: "play_button")
}
if(!touchCancelled){
loggerA(category: eventCategory, action: "Cover Scroll", label: "Video Play")
// delegate?.playVideo(youtubeId)
hidePoster()
player!.playVideo()
}
touchCancelled = false
}
deinit{
//delegate = nil
}
}

Answer 1

Oh, I have just found the solution: I need to set the "controls" to (0) false value in playerVars; So in my context it will look like this: let playerVars:[NSObject:AnyObject] = [ "controls":0, ... ]
And it just worked!