This doc explains how to enable the Video Editor SDK's interactive stickers: the two built-in types, Mention and Link, plus any number of your own client-defined types — for example Product or Location.
Mention and Link ship in the SDK — you turn them on through config. Custom types don't: you register any number of your own client-defined sticker types through a small factory contract, and the SDK takes care of rendering them everywhere a sticker type needs to show up — the picker button, the timeline bar icon, and the sticker pill on canvas.
The code examples below walk through a full working setup — a mentions provider plus two custom types (Product, Location).
Interactive stickers — Mentions, Hyperlinks, and custom types — are available since BanubaVideoEditorSDK 1.53.2. Make sure every Banuba pod resolves to 1.53.2 or newer.
❗ Note: interactive stickers are supported only in the new editor — they don't appear in the legacy editor UI.
Below is a Podfile for the 1.53.2 release with Face AR:
source '<https://github.com/Banuba/specs.git>'
source '<https://github.com/sdk-banuba/banuba-sdk-podspecs.git>'
platform :ios, '15.0'
use_frameworks!
target 'Example' do
banuba_sdk_version = '1.53.2'
pod 'BanubaVideoEditorSDK', banuba_sdk_version
pod 'BanubaSDK', '1.53.1'
pod 'BanubaARCloudSDK', banuba_sdk_version #optional
pod 'BanubaAudioBrowserSDK', banuba_sdk_version #optional
pod 'BanubaPhotoEditorSDK', '1.4.1'
end
Below is a Podfile for the 1.53.2 release with NO Face AR:
source '<https://github.com/Banuba/specs.git>'
source '<https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git>'
platform :ios, '15.0'
use_frameworks!
target 'Example' do
banuba_sdk_version = '1.53.2'
pod 'BanubaVideoEditorSDK', banuba_sdk_version
pod 'BanubaSDKSimple', '1.53.1'
pod 'BanubaARCloudSDK', banuba_sdk_version #optional
pod 'BanubaAudioBrowserSDK', banuba_sdk_version #optional
end
Mention and Link are built into the SDK — flip one config value each and they appear in the sticker picker, no screen of your own required. Custom types are the open-ended mechanism: implement one factory (InteractiveStickerSelectionExternalFactory) that lists your sticker types and creates a selection screen for each, register it once on the video editor's view controller factory, and a button for each of your types appears automatically. Everything the user places — of any type, Mention/Link included — comes back through a single read-back property, videoEditor.interactiveStickers.
Button order in the picker is Mention → Link → your custom types, in the order you list them in customStickers — this doc covers them in that same order.
Mention is a sticker type built into the SDK — unlike Product/Location, it doesn't go through the custom sticker factory. It lets the user pick one or more contacts and places a single sticker (a username, or a collage of avatars for a multi-select) on the video.