You might have seen video through you tube in iPhone.
Normal MPMoviePlayerController has previous, next & play/pause buttons.
You tube - player has additional two buttons on it.
=> Add to favorites on the left side.
=> Email this video on right side.
I want to implement the same for my application.
But I am failed to find out the property or methods regarding - implementing this.
How do I need buttons on it?
- When User is watching video there should no buttons on screen.
- When user taps on video - a toolbar comes on top & at center
- A center tool bar has generally three buttons on it ,Previous - next -play/pause
- I want to add a button beside next button & previous button.
I don't think you can modify the interface of an Apple provided view.
The general approach would be to play your video and then after it's done, show a view with the desired buttons/and or options for the user.
An example of this can be seen with the YouTube app on the iPhone. After the youtube video plays, the user is sent to a summary view with links to watch the video again, favourite it, share it, etc.
I would say that it may be possible to just set the MPMoviePlayerController
's movieControlMode
property to MPMovieControlModeHidden
and add a subview to it with your own collection of buttons, titles, etc... But MPMoviePlayerController
inherits only from NSObject
, so you couldn't do that. Perhaps you can subclass MPMoviePlayerController
and setup your own stuff when play
is called, yet again, I imagine MPMoviePlayerController
would display itself as a modal fullscreen view and hide anything you setup. :-\
If all you're looking to do is mess with the look of the controls, I DO know that you can mess around with various objects' drawRect:
methods to override how bars and buttons are drawn.
For example, setting up a category or subclass of UINavigationBar
and implementing drawRect:
as follows will result in a custom navigation bar being drawn:
- ( void )drawRect:( CGRect )rect
{
[ [ UIImage imageNamed:kSTNavigationBarBackgroundImageName ] drawInRect:CGRectMake( 0.0, 0.0, self.frame.size.width, self.frame.size.height ) ];
}
This replaces Apple's standard look for their navigation bars and replaces it with a custom image asset. We do this, among other things, for our apps.