Embed YouTube video player into Android Mobile application?

Question

Is there any way to embed YouTube video/video player into Android Flex AIR Mobile application?

I tried to use SWFLoader(...) but since its MX library class only works on the desktop runtime environment, but fails to work on actual Android device when debugging the application. Any ideas?

Maybe it's possible to embed HTML that contain YouTube video into some Flex media container like TextArea or something?

Answer 1

here you go, sir:

        protected var loader:Loader = new Loader();
        [Bindable]
        protected var player:Object;

        protected function view1_creationCompleteHandler(event:FlexEvent):void
        {
            trace("init")
            Security.loadPolicyFile("http://www.youtube.com/crossdomain.xml");
            loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, onLoaderInit);

            loader.load(new URLRequest("http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer?version=3&enablejsapi=1"));
        }

        protected function onLoaderInit(event:Event):void {
            trace("onLoader")
            loader.content.addEventListener("onReady", onPlayerReady);
            loader.content.addEventListener("onError", onPlayerError);
            loader.content.addEventListener("onStateChange", onPlayerStateChange);
            loader.content.addEventListener("onPlaybackQualityChange", 
                onVideoPlaybackQualityChange);
        }

        public function loadVideo(id:String):void{
            player.cueVideoByUrl(id);
            trace("playing",id)
            player.playVideo();
        }

        protected function onPlayerReady(event:Event):void {
            player = loader.content;
            //player.setSize(240, 210);

            swfLoader.autoLoad = true;
            swfLoader.scaleContent = true;
            swfLoader.maintainAspectRatio = true;
            swfLoader.load(player);
            trace("theLo" ,String(data))
            loadVideo(String(data))// kell az 1-es feladathoz itt
        }

        protected function swfLoader_securityErrorHandler(event:SecurityErrorEvent):void {
            trace("securityerror",event);
        }

        protected function onPlayerError(event:Event):void {
            trace("player error:");
        }

        protected function onPlayerStateChange(event:Event):void {
            trace("player state:", Object(event).data);
        }

        protected function onVideoPlaybackQualityChange(event:Event):void {
            trace("video quality:", Object(event).data);
        }

    ]]>
</fx:Script>
<s:SWFLoader id="swfLoader" x="0" y="64" width="100%" height="100%"
             securityError="swfLoader_securityErrorHandler(event)"/>

as you see, you dont need to embed html. you can add sliders and buttons as well.. for more information, see youtube actionscript api: https://developers.google.com/youtube/flash_api_reference

Answer 2

I don't know what kind of problems you're having embedding the playing in Flex. It's very possible and it shouldn't be that hard. Please refer to this example to implement it yourself.

P.S. I found that example by doing a google search. You should try it out sometime.