Swift-YouTube-Player alternatives and similar libraries
Based on the "Video" category.
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LFLiveKit
LaiFeng IOS Live Kit,H264 and AAC Hard coding,support GPUImage Beauty, rtmp transmission,weak network lost frame,Dynamic switching rate -
BMPlayer
A video player for iOS, based on AVPlayer, support the horizontal, vertical screen. support adjust volume, brightness and seek by slide, support subtitles. -
YoutubeKit
YoutubeKit is a video player that fully supports Youtube IFrame API and YoutubeDataAPI for easily create a Youtube app -
VGPlayer
DISCONTINUED. A simple iOS video player in Swift,Support play local and network,Background playback mode. -
VIMVideoPlayer
DISCONTINUED. Deprecated: Please use [PlayerKit]( https://github.com/vimeo/PlayerKit) instead. -
AVAnimator
AVAnimator is an iOS library that makes it easy to implement non-trivial animated/video content in iOS -
ABMediaView
Media view which subclasses UIImageView, and can display & load images, videos, GIFs, and audio and from the web, and has functionality to minimize from fullscreen, as well as show GIF previews for videos.
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YouTubePlayer
Embed and control YouTube videos in your iOS applications! Neato, right? Let's see how it works.
0.7.0 Update: WKWebView
breaking changes
Installation
Carthage
Add this to your Cartfile:
github "gilesvangruisen/Swift-YouTube-Player"
…and then run carthage update
Don't forget to:
- add
YouTubePlayer.framework
to theLink binary with libraries
build phase - add
YouTubePlayer.framework
as an input file to thecarthage copy-frameworks
run script phase (only necesasry if you're building for iOS)
See Carthage for more information about using Carthage as a dependency manager.
Cocoapods
Ensure you are opting into using frameworks with use_frameworks!
. Then add the following to your Podfile:
pod 'YouTubePlayer'
…and then run pod install
.
Example
// Import Swift module
import YouTubePlayer
Build and lay out the view however you wish, whether in IB w/ an outlet or programmatically.
@IBOutlet var videoPlayer: YouTubePlayerView!
// init YouTubePlayerView w/ playerFrame rect (assume playerFrame declared)
var videoPlayer = YouTubePlayerView(frame: playerFrame)
Give the player a video to load, whether from ID or URL.
// Load video from YouTube ID
videoPlayer.loadVideoID("nfWlot6h_JM")
// Load video from YouTube URL
let myVideoURL = NSURL(string: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQg3bXrVLtg")
videoPlayer.loadVideoURL(myVideoURL!)
Controlling YouTubePlayerView
Each YouTubePlayerView
has methods for controlling the player (play, pause, seek, change video, etc.) They are:
func loadVideoURL(videoURL: NSURL)
func loadVideoID(videoID: String)
func loadPlaylistID(playlistID: String)
func play()
func pause()
func stop()
func clear()
func seekTo(seconds: Float, seekAhead: Bool)
func previousVideo()
func nextVideo()
func getCurrentTime(completion: ((Double?) -> Void)?)
func getDuration(completion: ((Double?) -> Void)?))
Please note that calls to all but the first two methods will result in a JavaScript runtime error if they are called before the player is ready. The player will not be ready until shortly after a call to either loadVideoURL(videoURL: NSURL)
or loadVideoID(videoID: String)
. You can check the readiness of the player at any time by checking its ready: Bool
property. These functions run asynchronously, so it is not guaranteed that a call to a play function will be safe if it immediately follows a call to a load function. I plan to update the library soon to add completion handlers to be called when the player is ready.
In the meantime, you can also the YouTubePlayerDelegate
method playerReady(videoPlayer: YouTubePlayerView)
to ensure code is executed immediately when the player becomes ready.
Responding to events
YouTube's iFrame player emits certain events based on the lifecycle of the player. The YouTubePlayerDelegate
outlines these methods that get called during a player's lifecycle. They are:
func playerReady(videoPlayer: YouTubePlayerView)
func playerStateChanged(videoPlayer: YouTubePlayerView, playerState: YouTubePlayerState)
func playerQualityChanged(videoPlayer: YouTubePlayerView, playbackQuality: YouTubePlaybackQuality)
Side note: All these delegate methods are optional which means that you can implement none, all, or some of them in your delegate class.
Breaking Changes
0.7.0
Transitioning from UIWebView
(deprecated) to WKWebView
required changing
player calls which return values to be asynchronous. If you upgrade to 0.7.0,
you will need to replace any call to either getCurrentTime()
and
getDuration()
with its asynchronous equivalent, documented
above.