MobilePlayer
A powerful and completely customizable media player for iOS.
Table of Contents
Features
- Branding
- Flexible skinning. Add a watermark, add/remove/move/resize interface elements, change their appearances and much more.
- Easily set up A/B tests. You can manage multiple player skins and configurations. Player view controllers can load configuration data from a local JSON file or remote JSON data. You also have the option to initialize and pass configuration objects programmatically, which allows for greater flexibility.
- Engagement
- Comes with a built-in share button.
- Standard sharing behavior can easily be modified.
- Show any view controller as pre-roll or post-roll content.
- Powerful overlay system. Add any view controller as an overlay to your video. Make them permanently visible, set them to appear in defined playback time intervals, or while playback is paused.
- 100% documented.
Future plans
- Well defined and extensive
NSNotification
s. - Volume button and volume slider elements.
- Airplay support.
- Plugin support.
- Pre-bundled analytics plugins for various platforms.
- VAST support.
- Monetization.
Installation
CocoaPods
Add the following line in your Podfile
.
pod "MobilePlayer"
Carthage
Add the following line to your Cartfile.
github "mobileplayer/mobileplayer-ios"
Usage
import MobilePlayer
let playerVC = MobilePlayerViewController(contentURL: videoURL)
playerVC.title = "Vanilla Player - \(videoTitle)"
playerVC.activityItems = [videoURL] // Check the documentation for more information.
presentMoviePlayerViewControllerAnimated(playerVC)
Customization
Initialize using local configuration file
let bundle = NSBundle.mainBundle()
let config = MobilePlayerConfig(fileURL: bundle.URLForResource(
"WatermarkedPlayer",
withExtension: "json")!)
let playerVC = MobilePlayerViewController(
contentURL: videoURL,
config: config)
playerVC.title = "Watermarked Player - \(videoTitle)"
playerVC.activityItems = [videoURL]
present(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
Initialize using remote configuration data
guard let configURL = NSURL(string: "https://goo.gl/c73ANK") else { return }
let playerVC = MobilePlayerViewController(
contentURL: videoURL,
config: MobilePlayerConfig(fileURL: configURL))
playerVC.title = "Watermarked Player - \(videoTitle)"
playerVC.activityItems = [videoURL]
present(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
Configuration data
{
"watermark": {
"image": "MovielalaLogo"
}
}
Without a configuration file URL
let playerVC = MobilePlayerViewController(
contentURL: videoURL,
config: MobilePlayerConfig(
dictionary: ["watermark": ["image": "MovielalaLogo"]]))
playerVC.title = "Watermarked Player - \(videoTitle)"
playerVC.activityItems = [videoURL]
present(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
Skinning
{
"watermark": {
"image": "MovielalaLogo",
"position": "topRight"
},
"topBar": {
"backgroundColor": ["#a60500b0", "#a60500a0"],
"elements": [
{
"type": "button",
"identifier": "close"
},
{
"type": "slider",
"identifier": "playback",
"trackHeight": 6,
"trackCornerRadius": 3,
"minimumTrackTintColor": "#eee",
"availableTrackTintColor": "#9e9b9a",
"maximumTrackTintColor": "#cccccc",
"thumbTintColor": "#f9f9f9",
"thumbBorderWidth": 1,
"thumbBorderColor": "#fff",
"marginRight": 4
}
]
},
"bottomBar": {
"backgroundColor": ["#a60500a0", "#a60500b0"],
"elements": [
{
"type": "label",
"text": "Now Watching",
"font": "Baskerville",
"size": 12,
"marginLeft": 8,
"marginRight": 8
},
{
"type": "label",
"identifier": "title",
"size": 14
},
{
"type": "button",
"identifier": "action"
},
{
"type": "toggleButton",
"identifier": "play"
}
]
}
}
For all available identifier
s, check the documentation or here. Same identifier
value shouldn't be used more than once in a single configuration.
Showing overlays
let playerVC = MobilePlayerViewController(contentURL: videoURL)
playerVC.title = videoTitle
playerVC.activityItems = [videoURL]
present(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
ProductStore.getProduct("1", success: { product in
guard let product = product else { return }
playerVC.showOverlayViewController(
BuyOverlayViewController(product: product))
})
Showing timed overlays
let playerVC = MobilePlayerViewController(contentURL: videoURL)
playerVC.title = videoTitle
playerVC.activityItems = [videoURL]
present(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
ProductStore.getProductPlacementsForVideo(
videoID,
success: { productPlacements in
guard let productPlacements = productPlacements else { return }
for placement in productPlacements {
ProductStore.getProduct(placement.productID, success: { product in
guard let product = product else { return }
playerVC.showOverlayViewController(
BuyOverlayViewController(product: product),
startingAtTime: placement.startTime,
forDuration: placement.duration)
})
}
})
Pre-roll
let playerVC = MobilePlayerViewController(
contentURL: videoURL,
prerollViewController: PrerollOverlayViewController())
playerVC.title = videoTitle
playerVC.activityItems = [videoURL]
present(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
Pause overlay
let playerVC = MobilePlayerViewController(
contentURL: videoURL,
pauseOverlayViewController: PauseOverlayViewController())
playerVC.title = videoTitle
playerVC.activityItems = [videoURL]
present(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
Post-roll
let playerVC = MobilePlayerViewController(
contentURL: videoURL,
postrollViewController: PostrollOverlayViewController())
playerVC.title = videoTitle
playerVC.activityItems = [videoURL]
present(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
Examples
After cloning the repo, run the MobilePlayerExamples
target to see examples for many use cases.
Documentation
The entire documentation for the library can be found here.
License
The use of the MobilePlayer open source edition is governed by a Creative Commons license. You can use, modify, copy, and distribute this edition as long as it’s for non-commercial use, you provide attribution, and share under a similar license. http://mobileplayer.io/license/