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I have followed the following tutorial to implement CallKit within my app:

https://www.raywenderlich.com/150015/callkit-tutorial-ios

But I would like to go further, and display my own ViewController while the call is active. I am doing a videocall service so I would like to have my own interface.

Is that possible at all? I have been trying to launch the ViewController from the method provider(CXProvider:CXAnswerCallAction) which is the one called when the user answers the call, but it seems to crash every time. I am trying to instantiate it with this (Swift 3):

let vc = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "VideoCallViewController") as! VideoCallViewController
UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController?.present(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)

It crashes on the second line without explanation. It shows lldb, I have tried to get the backtrace by entering bt but it doesn't return anything.

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I figured it out:

let mainStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let vc = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "VideoCallViewController") as! VideoCallViewController

then, either:

vc.view.frame = UIScreen.main.bounds
UIView.transition(with: self.window!, duration: 0.5, options: .transitionCrossDissolve, animations: {
    self.window!.rootViewController = vc
}, completion: nil)

or:

self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
self.window?.rootViewController = vc
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()

According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/35226874/5798668, the first option is preferable because if you use the second one you will have multiple UIWindows active in your app at the same time.

NOTE: In my case the ProviderDelegate did not have a self.window attribute, this was passed to it by the AppDelegate.swift, in which a Push notification was executing the reportIncomingCall() of the delegate.

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  • Did you find a way to show your app (with your own Call ViewController) when receiving video call on the locked screen? – Pavel Alexeev May 28 '19 at 20:20