Participate in a live event

You can participate in a live event as a participant. When you enter a live event as a participant, you can receive the host's media stream and chat with other participants and the host.

A LiveEventParticipantViewController instance includes a view displaying the host's media stream, UI components for providing the live event information, and a chat where participants can send messages during the live event.

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The following table lists the features included in LiveEventParticipantViewController. The LiveEventParticipantViewController class includes all the features of the LiveEventViewController class and can access all of its methods and properties.

To launch LiveEventParticipantViewController, a user must enter the live event by calling liveEvent.enterEvent.

A user can click a live event on LiveEventListViewController to enter the live event and automatically display LiveEventParticipantViewController.

Alternatively, you can use the following code to manually display LiveEventParticipantViewController.

liveEvent.enter { error in
    guard error == nil, liveEvent.openChannel != nil else { return }

    let participantVC = LiveEventParticipantViewController(openChannel: liveEvent.openChannel!, liveEvent: liveEvent)
    self.present(participantVC)
}

The following table lists methods you can use to customize the view controller.

The following table lists the properties of SBUStringSet you can customize to modify the live event's participant view.

The following table lists icons in SBUIconSet that you can customize to modify the live event's participant view.