iOS: how to instantiate YTPlayerView programmatically?

Question

I'm trying to instantiate the YTPlayerView from the youtube_ios_player_helper pod programmatically, with the following code:

let player = YTPlayerView()
   player.cueVideo(byId: "someId", startSeconds: 0)

then the needed constraints are created and the youtubeplayer view is added to the containerview.

But, the internal webview, remains for ever nil, and is not created. I suppose I'm not instantiating the player correctly, but I did not found any information about how to do it.

Any Help?

thanks

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '20 at 05:03

If you look at the source code, cueVideoById does not actually create the internal webview, you need to first call one of the following:

- (BOOL)loadWithVideoId:(NSString *)videoId
- (BOOL)loadWithPlaylistId:(NSString *)playlistId
- (BOOL)loadWithVideoId:(NSString *)videoId playerVars:(NSDictionary *)playerVars
- (BOOL)loadWithPlaylistId:(NSString *)playlistId playerVars:(NSDictionary *)playerVars

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '20 at 17:25

You must be creating an object player of YTPlayerView, BUT, it gets deallocated easily. So what to do? Make that a property. Something like this:

private lazy var player: YTPlayerView = {
    return YTPlayerView()
}()

override func viewDidLoad()...

or

private var player: YTPlayerView!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.player = YTPlayerView()
}

iOS: how to instantiate YTPlayerView programmatically?

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