Disable swipe to close on AVPlayerController

Question

iOS 11 has introduced a swipe to close AVPlayerController. I have app that is aimed at toddlers so the screen is easily swiped causing the video to close. Is there anyway to remove the gesture to close the player?

I have tried adding a gesture override to the AVPlayerController's view but it doesn't work. There is a possible solution on How can I add Swipe Gesture to AVPlayer in swift 3 but there must be a cleaner way

Answer 1

I managed to solve issue. As @Vakas commented, the AVPlayerController shouldn't be subclassed. I had originally subclassed it and presented using a modal segue. This was causing the problem.

To solve it, I created another view controller that embeds the AVPlayerController in it.

import UIKit
import AVKit

class PlayerViewController: UIViewController, AVPlayerViewControllerDelegate {

    var videoRecord: Video!
    var presentingController = ""
    var videos = [Video]()
    var presentingPlaylist:  Playlist?

    let playerViewController = TFLPlayerController()


    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        playerViewController.delegate = self

        playerViewController.videoRecord = videoRecord
        playerViewController.videos = self.videos
        playerViewController.allowsPictureInPicturePlayback = false

        // Add the original AVPlayerController in here
        self.addChildViewController(playerViewController)

        let playerView = playerViewController.view
        playerView?.frame = self.view.bounds

        self.view.addSubview(playerView!)
        playerViewController.didMove(toParentViewController: self)

    }

}

I basically use this View Controller to pass through the properties such as videos, etc, to the originally subclassed AVPlayerController.