Playkit_IMA support for Picture in Picture

[audrarodriguez]

I've been trying to support ads for picture in picture using Kaltura SDK but it seems there's no way to support this via Playkit_IMA.

I've read some documentation about using Google IMA with picture in picture but it seems this documentation is not helping when trying to use Playkit_IMA with picture in picture.
Link for the documentation: https://developers.google.com/interactive-media-ads/docs/sdks/ios/client-side/picture_in_picture

My questions is, does Kaltura support ads via Playkit_IMA using picture in picture or is there other way in which this can be done?

[nidhik]

Bumping this issue. Please let us know if displaying (Google IMA) ads in picture in picture mode is supported by Kaltura.

[x-NR-x]

Hello @audrarodriguez and @nidhik,

Thank you for contacting us, and sorry for the late response.
We have a sample of PiP in the samples repo (https://github.com/kaltura/playkit-ios-samples).

We haven't tried to combine IMA with it, I will create a task to check it.
In the meantime you are welcome to play around with it.

Thanks,
Nilit

[x-NR-x]

You have the following delegate in the IMAPlugin:
weak public var pipDelegate: AVPictureInPictureControllerDelegate?

• Don't forget to set Background Modes to ON for Audio, AirPlay and Picture in Picture.
• Set the AVAudioSession properties to support background playback:

[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setActive:YES error:nil];
[[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback error:nil];

• We already set the 'enableBackgroundPlayback' in the IMASettings to true as the default value.

[x-NR-x]

I see now that we have a bug there that we will need to fix in order for it to work.
Sorry for the inconvenience.