AVPlayer - UILabel not visible over video

avplayer, ios, objective-c

Solution

You can use the zPosition property of the view's layer (it's a CALayer object) to change the z-index of the view.

 theView.layer.zPosition = 1;

And Bring labels to front

Problem

``` NSString *urlPath; NSURL *videoUrl; urlPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"fogLoop" ofType:@"mp4"]; videoUrl = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:urlPath]; avPlayer = [AVPlayer playerWithURL:videoUrl]; avPlayerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:avPlayer]; avPlayerLayer.frame = videoView.layer.bounds; avPlayerLayer.videoGravity = AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill; [videoView.layer addSublayer: avPlayerLayer]; avPlayer.actionAtItemEnd = AVPlayerActionAtItemEndNone; [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(playerItemDidReachEnd:) name:AVPlayerItemDidPlayToEndTimeNotification object:[avPlayer currentItem]]; [avPlayer play]; ``` I have several UILabels on this view. I just want the video as a background element really. With this code, it seems to play over all the UI elements. How do I make it go to the background?

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