VideoLabel

iOS text with video as text background.

Features

• Supports local and remote videos.
• Fully accessible with support for Dynamic Text and Voice Over.
• text, attributedText, font, url and alignment are configurable.
• Supports multiple labels with different videos in the same view.

Installation

Swift Package Manager

Add the package using Xcode by going to:

File > Swift Packages > Add Package Dependency: https://github.com/h4yder/VideoLabel

Manually

Drag VideoLabel.swift into your project, its self-contained.

How to use

Just import the module and add a view.

import VideoLabel

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "Video", withExtension: "mov")!
        let label = VideoLabel(text: "Hello World!", url: url)
        label.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 60)

        view.addSubview(label)
    }
}

Or using an NSAttributedString.

        let attribs: [NSAttributedString.Key: Any] = [
            /* a dictionary of text attributes like kern, font etc.. */
            ]
        let attributedText = NSAttributedString(string: "Hello World!", attributes: attribs)

        let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "Video", withExtension: "mov")!
        let label = VideoLabel(attributedText: attributedText, url: url)

More

For more information about how it works, you can read about it here.