Feature request: Ability to hide onscreen controls programmatically

[ghost]

When working with PIP (picture-in-picture) mode: Hiding player controls before transitioning to PIP mode is a must for user experience. Something like controller.hideControls() would be great

Current behavior:

1. Go fullscreen
2. Tap to show player controls
3. Enter PIP mode
4. Player controls are still visible in the small PIP window (for a duration of _hideTimer which is 3s)
   

Suggested behavior:

1. Go fullscreen
2. Tap to show player controls
3. Call controller.hideControls()
4. Enter PIP mode
5. Only video is showing in the small PIP window

I did implement this in my fork and it works. But I'm pretty new to flutter development and it kinda felt like a hack? Here's the commit: https://github.com/kono0514/chewie_extended/commit/90b803d71f2ad308f03affd3314abbb188a859b9 If you can provide feedback for this commit, I can improve my implementation and do a PR.

[Ahmadre]

Thank you very much @kono0514 🙏 We'll have a look asap and give you feedback to this.

[riyan-dcosta]

this feature is required. no option to pause video and hide controls to view video clearly.

[shobith10]

this feature is required so badly

[1041harpreet]

does anyone finds solution for this?

[ryanontheinside]

anyone