How do I intercept tapping of the done button in AVPlayerViewController?

Question

I created an AVPlayerViewController and an attached AVPlayer in the viewDidAppear method of a custom UIViewController. Ho

Answer 1

I solved by keeping a weak reference to the AVPlayerViewController instance, and monitoring with a timer where the reference change to nil.

private weak var _playerViewController : AVPlayerViewController? // global reference
    ...
    ...
    let playerController = AVPlayerViewController() // local reference
    ...
    self.present(playerController, animated: true) { [weak self] in
        playerController.player?.play()
        self?._playerViewController = playerController
        // schedule a timer to intercept player dismissal
        Timer.scheduledTimer(withTimeInterval: 1, repeats: true) { [weak self] (timer) in
        if self?.playerViewController == nil {
            // player vc dismissed
            timer.invalidate()
        }
}