Can I add custom view on AVPictureInPictureController?

Question

I found an interesting app which pip is not a video but a label:

I had try add custom layer on AVPlayerLayer, but it not work.

Any idea to achieve it?

Answer 1

You can get the picture-in-picture window in AVPictureInPictureControllerDelegate and then add your views:

Swift:

func pictureInPictureControllerWillStartPictureInPicture(_ pictureInPictureController: AVPictureInPictureController) {
    // note this is first window
    if let window = UIApplication.shared.windows.first {
        window.addSubview(customView)
        // use autoLayout
        customView.snp.makeConstraints { (make) -> Void in
            make.edges.equalToSuperview()
        }
    }
}

Objective-C:

- (void)pictureInPictureControllerWillStartPictureInPicture:(AVPictureInPictureController *)pictureInPictureController {
    UIWindow *firstWindow = [UIApplication sharedApplication].windows.firstObject;
    [firstWindow addSubview:self.customView];
    [self.customView mas_makeConstraints:^(MASConstraintMaker *make) {
        make.edges.mas_equalTo(firstWindow);
    }];
}