I am developing this app for ipad and ios9 and at some point the user will click on a button to watch a video. But I wouldn't want the user to just see it in the split view size he's currently on (like 1/3rd or 14th) instead I would like the app to close the other open app and for it to take over the entire screen.
Does anyone know if that's possible? Thanks.
By-default, the video always get played in full-screen mode. When video playing is finished, the player gets dismissed and you will see your screen (from where you played the video). In your case, in split view controller.
Do let me know if you need further details.
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I'm developing a Windows Phone 8.1 app that plays a video using the MediaElement control. I'm facing some problems for which I've not been able to find information. I've uploaded an example app here: https://mega.co.nz/#!s9sFiQDK!JDI9ar8qWqWIZ_Ot-Q8K8X0qfQ5YG7ATLAiHypOs5Ow
If a click the button in the default page, the app navigates to a second page that contains a MediaElement to play a video. My app is configured to be Portrait only, but I want the video to be displayed in Landscape. For this, I'm changing the screen orientation when clicking on the button and before navigating to the video page with this line: Windows.Graphics.Display.DisplayInformation.AutoRotationPreferences = Windows.Graphics.Display.DisplayOrientations.Landscape; The problem with this is that I can see in the app when the orientation is changing which looks ugly. How can I do to make the video display in landscape without having to change the orientation of the screen? I've seen in the Facebook app that when a video opens, the app does navigate to another page (or at least it seems so from the transition animation that I see) but even though, videos open and play in landscape, there is no screen rotation.
I want to hide the StatusBar before the page with the video is displayed. I've put this line statusBar.HideAsync(); in various places but regardless, I always see that the StatusBar is still hiding when the video is already visible and playing. Again, the Facebook app does hide the StatusBar before the video is shown in the screen.
When the video is playing, if I press and hold the back hardware button, the app is minimized. Now, if I click on its screenshot to go back to it, the app comes to the foreground, but the video is not playing anymore. If I tap on the video to see the video controls, I can see that the video progress line is moving, but the video is like frozen. If I pause the video and play it again, the video resumes. How do I do to make the video to continue to play when the app comes to the foreground? In the Facebook app when I do this, the app comes to the foreground, but the video page is closed and the app takes me to the timeline page. Is this the only way of doing it? If so, how do I detect that when the app comes to the foreground there is a video playing so I can close the page and navigate to the previous one.
If you always want the video page in landscape mode, you can call
Windows.Graphics.Display.DisplayInformation.AutoRotationPreferences = Windows.Graphics.Display.DisplayOrientations.Landscape;
in the page constructor, after InitializeComponent();
Calling
StatusBar.GetForCurrentView().HideAsync();
in the main page constructor is working fine for me.
I still have the same problem, I've tried different approaches, but I can't even get App.Resuming event (and unfortunately in Windows Phone 8.1 WinRT OnNavigatedTo is not triggered on app resuming).
I have a tabbed application in which some view controllers have an embedded video player.
For obvious reasons, I want to stop the video when the user move to another tab (otherwise, it continue playing in background).
In iOS 5, I had implemented this in the viewDidDisappear on the view controller. However, since iOS 6, it seems that the full screen mode of the media player makes the underlying view to "disappear". So, my video stops 1sec after I press the full screen button.
So my question is: what are the best practices to stop the video when moving out from the media player container, while keeping support for full-screen mode?
I am creating a bit of a video mash up app (like imovie) and the first function I am tackling is the ability to drag a thumbnail from a video library and drop it on a time line. I was able to add the drag code to the video thumbnail class so when you touch it, it creates a drag proxy view which moves around when you move your finger. Next I want to be able to drop it on the time line.
My Timeline is also a uiview and I am unsure of how it can receive notification that the thumbnail is being dragged over it! It will need the position of the thumbnail so that it can show it on the timeline and the duration of the clip and such (information that I have attached to my video thumbnail object)
How would you approach this issue? The App is for ipad and is on ios 5.
Thanks for any pointers!
You will most likely want to subclass the UIView. You can look at this post:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/4130641/1535038
Mainly you will want to see if the My Timeline view is being touched, and then see if you are in the middle of a drag or not.
I want to know that how one should proceed in building animated splash screen.
I already did the animated splash screen with images but here I want to add custom animation like something is drawn on screen etc.
can anyone guide me through this.
simply you need to present a UIViewController which is hold your animations and dismiss it when your app is ready to launch. but also I think its better to follow apple HIG .. as apple describe you should
Supply a launch image to improve user experience.
Avoid using your launch image as an opportunity to provide:
An “application entry experience,” such as a splash screen An About
window Branding elements, unless they are a static part of your
application’s first screen Because users are likely to switch among
applications frequently, you should make every effort to cut launch
time to a minimum, and you should design a launch image that downplays
the experience rather than drawing attention to it.
Generally, design a launch image that is identical to the first screen
of the application.
Exceptions:
Text. The launch image is static, so any text you display in it will
not be localized.
UI elements that might change. Avoid including elements that might
look different when the application finishes launching, so that users
don’t experience a flash between the launch image and the first
application screen.
I'm a beginner in IOS but I need to show a video when the app is launching.
Please Can you help me?
If is impossible to implement a video on a splash view, there are any idea to create that?
Thanks.
If I have an orthographic mistake, sorry I come from Spain. ;D
The "splash" screen can only be an image to be used as a placeholder until your app is able to start up. Even if you found a way to get a video to play, which I don't think is possible, it is against Apple's HIG for how the startup screen is supposed to be used.
It would be possible to load your video in its own view immediately after the splash screen. You would need to check for a first time run to determine whether to show it, unless you plan to show it each and every time. Hope this helps.
Apple Human Interface Guide