Add/change button overlay of video record when using AVFoundation

Question

I am currently implementing video functionality into an iPhone app that requires the user to be able to 'Select and Play' a video and 'Record and Play' a video using the AVFoundation API. Similar to that shown in the tutorial here.

No problems so far implementing the functionality, however I now need to change the buttons shown recording a video for example - thus creating a custom overlay. For example the record button needs to be altered.

Answer 1

The way I have done this before is to disable the controls from MPMovePlayerController, then put a UIImageView with your controls over the top, then put a UIView with UITapGestureRecognizer on top of that to detect when your controls are pressed.

Disabling the controls:

[_videoPlayer setControlStyle:MPMovieControlStyleNone];

Gesture recognizer:

touchLayer = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.frame];

UITapGestureRecognizer *tapRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(didTapVideoControlOverlay:)];
[tapRecognizer setNumberOfTapsRequired:1];

[touchLayer addGestureRecognizer:tapRecognizer];