Pillarbox is the modern SRG SSR player ecosystem implemented on top of AVFoundation and AVKit. Pillarbox was designed with flexibilty in mind, letting you fully customize:
- Metadata and asset URL retrieval.
- Asset resource loading.
- Analytics and QoS integration.
- User interface layout in SwiftUI.
Its robust reactive player provides all essential playback features, as well as:
- Support for playlists, including bidirectional navigation.
- First-class integration with SwiftUI.
- AirPlay compatibility.
- Control center integration.
In addition Pillarbox provides the ability to play all SRG SSR content through a dedicated package.
Here are a few examples of layouts which can be achieved using Pillarbox and SwiftUI, directly borrowed from our demo project:
From left to right:
- Screenshots 1, 2 and 3: Standard player interface showing on-demand video, video livestream and audio stream playback respectively.
- Screenshot 4: Player with associated playlist.
- Screenshot 5: Stories.
- Screenshot 6: System AVKit user interface.
The library is suitable for applications running on iOS 16, tvOS 16 and above. The project is meant to be compiled with the latest Xcode version.
If you want to contribute to the project have a look at our contributing guide.
The library can be integrated using Swift Package Manager directly within Xcode. You can also declare the library as a dependency of another one directly in the associated Package.swift manifest.
A few remarks:
- When building a project integrating Pillarbox for the first time, Xcode might ask you to trust our plugins. You should accept.
- If you want your application to run on Silicon Macs as an iPad application you must add
-weak_framework MediaPlayerto your target Other Linker Flags setting.
To learn more how integration of Pillarbox into your project please have a look at our getting started guide.
Follow the links below for further documentation:
See the LICENSE file for more information.