mastodon-ios [BUG] Close Fullscreen Video

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Current Behavior

I encountered, when watching a video on mastodon iOS (iphone X) in fullscreen there is no possibility to close the window. So you can only close the whole app and restart.

Expected Behavior

A close button would be nice. Keep up the good work!

Steps To Reproduce

open any video in the app
try to close it 😁
…
(decide you watch too many videos, anyways)
(have an epiphany on how to prevent the climate catastrophe)
(quit doomscrolling and use your time for the greater good)

Environment

- Device: iphone X
- OS: iOS
- Version: 1.4.5
- Build:

Anything else?

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Oct 30 '22 16:10 smeagolli

Can confirm... sliding down appears the only way to exit full screen video.

Would also agree a close button should be standard.

Nov 10 '22 15:11 paulywill

This is a complicated UX to handle. Ideally, tapping on a video would open iOS’s native full screen player (which handles interactions quite well). However, Mastodon allows posts with mixed video + photos, so you need to be able to swipe between them (which can’t be done with the default full screen player). There’s also the complication that the inline video player iOS provides has a full screen button baked in, which doesn't really make sense for our use case. Fixing this requires either implementing a custom video player UI (which would be unfortunate since the current UI gives us so much for free) or coming up with an alternate interaction model that works around the limitations of full screen video.