White flashing during orientation change even with black background SwiftUI

Question

I have a ZStack that I set the color to black and then add a VideoPlayer. When I rotate the device there are still flashes of white around the player. I have played with all sorts of ideas and background colors, foreground colors, opacity and nothing has worked. I just want the background to be black so it looks like a smooth rotation. Anybody have any suggestions or fixes? Here's my code:

import Foundation
import SwiftUI
import AVKit

struct VideoDetail: View {
    
var videoIDString: String
var videoThumbURL: String
@State var player = AVPlayer()

var body: some View {
    
    ZStack {

        Color.black
            .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
        
        let videoURL: String = videoIDString

        VideoPlayer(player: player)
            //.frame(height: 200)
            .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
            .onAppear {
                
                player = AVPlayer(url: URL(string: videoURL)!)
                player.play()
            }
            .onDisappear {
                
                player.pause()
            }
    }
    .navigationBarHidden(true)
    .background(Color.black.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all))
    }
}

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '22 at 02:11

I was having the same issue and came across a solution: you can set the background color of the hosting window's root view controller's view. You don't have direct access to this within SwiftUI, so in order to do this you can use a method described in this answer.

Just copy the withHostingWindow View extension including HostingWindowFinder somewhere and use the following code in your view to set the background color to black:

    var body: some View {
        ZStack {
            // ...
        }
        .withHostingWindow { window in
            window?.rootViewController?.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.black
        }
    }

After this, the white corners when rotating should be gone!

yes, this solved the problem when nothing else did. as an alternative to .withHostingWindow, you can use ```if let window = (UIApplication.shared.connectedScenes.first as? UIWindowScene)?.windows.first``` in an ```onAppear()``` method. — Chris McElroy, May 26 '22 at 23:01

White flashing during orientation change even with black background SwiftUI

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