Hi everyone, I'm currently working on implementing...

# compose-ios

[Vishal kumar singhvi]

Hi everyone,
I'm currently working on implementing Picture-in-Picture (PiP) functionality for a video player in a Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) project. Specifically, I'm looking to:
• Enable PiP when the user presses the home button
• Support automatic PiP activation
• Maintain compatibility with iOS/Android through KMP
If anyone has experience with this or can recommend any helpful articles, tutorials, or blog posts on implementing PiP in KMP, I would greatly appreciate your suggestions. for IOS I am looking android i have created

[gildor]

I think for both Android and iOS you just need to wrap system APIs, no other options

[gildor]

if you need also desktop, you have implement it yourself, but for Android/iOS, until someone wrote a library specifically to abstract it, just wrap system APIs, call it from common code

[Vishal kumar singhvi]

I only need Picture-in-Picture support for Android and iOS. I've already implemented it on Android, and it's working fine. However, I’m struggling with the iOS implementation — there’s very limited documentation or blogs available. I tried following Swift-based approaches, but PiP mode is still not working. My code follows a Reels-like video playback behavior.

[gildor]

yes, they way more limited on iOS, only specific use cases are supported

[gildor]

so I would suggest to first make it work, it's not really about compose or Kotlin, you need working PiP implementation on iOS first

[gildor]

You can try just with some iOS sample app

[gildor]

I believe built-in PiP on iOS works only for AVKit

[Vishal kumar singhvi]

I checked on github pip related no code is there but i will do some poc figure out

[Vishal kumar singhvi]

Okay thanks for reply will try with some poc app first

[gildor]

I googled and it shows me this project on GH
https://github.com/halilozel1903/PictureinPictureApp

[gildor]

it also have links to other materials

[Vishal kumar singhvi]

I have ios friend yesterday he created pip within 5 min and it's working fine in ios but when same pattern i tried in kmp pip is not triggeing

[gildor]

so probably there are differences, I would suggest just review it

[Vishal kumar singhvi]

Sure thank you 🙂

[gildor]

if you use the same APIs, it should work, I don't see why it wouldn't

[gildor]

Good luck

[Animasahun Ibrahim]

@Vishal kumar singhvi Able to get it working? currently facing the same challenge

[Vishal kumar singhvi]

No brother tried many things no working solutions

[Vishal kumar singhvi]

this is working code for native i tried something in kmp for ios but no success you can refer this ,if you found something please message here

ViewController (2).swift

[Animasahun Ibrahim]

@Vishal kumar singhvi I've been able to get it working with zoomvideosdk. Nothing fancy but gets the job done

pip.kt