showPlaybackControls property

bool showPlaybackControls
final

Play/pause only, and off by default. There is deliberately no progress bar in full screen — a scrubber pinned to the bottom edge fights the CTA that lives there — and the play/pause button goes the same way: the top corners are for leaving (×) and for sound (mute), the bottom is the CTA's, and a third control competes with both.

The trade-off is real and deliberate: with this off there is no way to pause a full-screen video, since tapping the media does not toggle playback (it does nothing while expanded). Mute is the escape hatch. Flip this to true for long-form creative where pausing matters.

Implementation

final bool showPlaybackControls;