MobilePlayer

A powerful and completely customizable media player for iOS.

Table of Contents

1. Features
2. Installation
3. Usage
4. Customization

• Skinning
• Showing overlays
• Showing timed overlays
• Pre-roll
• Pause overlay
• Post-roll

6. Examples
7. Documentation
8. License

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 NSNotifications.
• 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)

Result

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 identifiers, check the documentation or here. Same identifier value shouldn't be used more than once in a single configuration.

Result

Example designs

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)

Result

Example designs

Post-roll

let playerVC = MobilePlayerViewController(
  contentURL: videoURL,
  postrollViewController: PostrollOverlayViewController())
playerVC.title = videoTitle
playerVC.activityItems = [videoURL]
present(playerVC, animated: true, completion: nil)

Result

Example designs

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/