Custom menu button support?

[defagos]

iOS 13 introduced menus, which are used in iOS 15 to choose tracks:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/170201/133418101-6a0718ad-4471-4d55-a1a0-a973049c6881.MP4

While our subtitle and audio track selection has a nicer UX (explanations of behaviors, most notably for automatic selection, translated labels), using menus could provide a nice way to group some settings, or to provide a way to add custom player actions.

A rough idea:

• Keep the current track button with its subtitle selection state, opening the associated popup.
• Provide a custom button control with custom menu support. We could provide default actions (e.g. open the subtitle selection or a speed selection), while letting the app add its own actions which do not belong to the player (e.g. add a favorite, automatically stop playback after a number of minutes, etc.).

[defagos]

iOS 16 even introduces an API which makes it possible to keep the menu open after selection. Could be useful for subtitle and audio track selection.

[defagos]

SRG Media Player player successor found in our new Pillarbox library makes it easy to provide a custom appearance for settings like audio tracks, subtitles or playback speeds.

Such customization is not limited to menus, you can also introduce a slider to pick the playback speed, for example. SwiftUI is the recommended approach and an API is also available to customize the behavior of menus when a selection is made ( .menuActionDismissBehavior(_:).

We won't therefore implement this feature in SRG Media Player. Closed.