Show clock and battery in landscape mode (only when other controls are shown)

[barrymay]

Show clock and battery display in landscape mode (at least on phone)

In landscape video playback, would be great to show clock and battery at the same time whenever the video playback controls are showing.

(Sometimes I'm watching a course and I just want to check the time without getting out of the app, which stops the sound.)

Steps to reproduce

1. Start a video
2. Tap the screen to show playback controls
3. Along with the playback controls on the bottom, show the standard clock/battery info on top of the screen

[dachev]

The status bar is visible on tablets but not on phones. This is a default behavior introduced in iOS 8. As of the time of this writing most video apps (including Youtube) abide.

There is a possibility that we are gong to fully utilize the top space as we add more functionality, but if that's not the case we would consider showing the status bar instead.

[barrymay]

Cool - just noting that Netflix on iPhone does show the time/battery status bar in landscape mode, and frontend masters course lengths are more Netflix than YouTube in typical length 😉

[barrymay]

Just adding to this since I tried on tablet -would be great in landscape mode (on phone and tablet) if the status bar ONLY showed when the other video controls did. When watching by default i don't want any distractions, but when I'm acting on the video (rewind/fast-forward) this is where the clock would be ideal.

Currently on iPad the clock always shows which is a bit distracting (at least in landscape)

If that can't happen then no clock status bar in full landscape mode is better than having one.

Thanks