Most effective method for video as background in iOS

Question

Perhaps you have noticed one of the latest trend in iOS-apps: Using videos as backgrounds - mainly at login- or \"first launch\" screens. Yesterday I attempted to mimic this

Answer 1

I found this code on GitHub that worked for me in iOS8/9

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    // Load the video from the app bundle.
    NSURL *videoURL = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"video" withExtension:@"mov"];

    // Create and configure the movie player.
    self.moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoURL];

    self.moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleNone;
    self.moviePlayer.scalingMode = MPMovieScalingModeAspectFill;

    self.moviePlayer.view.frame = self.view.frame;
    [self.view insertSubview:self.moviePlayer.view atIndex:0];

    [self.moviePlayer play];

    // Loop video.
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(loopVideo) name:MPMoviePlayerPlaybackDidFinishNotification object:self.moviePlayer];
}

- (void)loopVideo {
    [self.moviePlayer play];
}