MPMoviePlayerController adding UIButton to view that fades with controls

Question

I am trying to add a UIButton to the view of a MPMoviePlayerController along with the standard controls. The button appears over the video and works as expected re

Answer 1

My solution to the same problem was:

• Add the button as a child of the MPMoviePlayerController's view;
• fade the button in and out using animation of its alpha property, with the proper durations;
• handle the player controller's touchesBegan, and use that to toggle the button's visibility (using its alpha);
• use a timer to determine when to hide the button again.

By trial-and-error, I determined that the durations that matched the (current) iOS ones are:

• fade in: 0.1s
• fade out: 0.2s
• duration on screen: 5.0s (extend that each time the view is touched)

Of course this is still fragile; if the built-in delays change, mine will look wrong, but the code will still run.