YouTubePlayerView (Deprecated)

⚠️ **Deprecation Notice

Please note that the YouTube Android Player API has been deprecated and is no longer recommended for use. As a result, YouTubePlayerView will also be deprecated. Instead, you can migrate to the YouTube IFrame Player API.

What is YouTubePlayerView?

• YouTube Player API is too old version
  : Never updated from 2015/10/12
• There are 3 problems with YouTube Player API library.

Problem 1 - Jar File

• We should use Jar library file, not like implementation xxxx
• That is old way and it makes difficult to manage the library

Problem 2 - Fragment style

• If you want YouTube player with another view, you have to use YouTubePlayerFragment (Or you have to extend YouTubeBaseActivity)
  
  
  

<FrameLayout
    android:id="@+id/youtube_player_container"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

val youtubePlayerFragment = YouTubePlayerSupportFragment()
fragmentManager.beginTransaction()
    .replace(binding.youtubePlayerContainer.id, youtubePlayerFragment)
    .commitAllowingStateLoss()
youtubePlayerFragment.initialize(...)

Problem 3 - Conflict Fragment with androidx

• Furthermore if you use androidx package, you can not use YouTubePlayerFragment.
• androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager need androidx.fragment.app.Fragment, but YouTubePlayerFragment is android.app.Fragment
• You can find many question about this issue
  : Youtube player support fragment no longer working on Android studio 3.2 (androidx)
  : YoutubeAndroidPlayerAPI error after migrating to AndroidX in Android Studio

YouTubePlayerView is super easy YouTube Player View

Setup

Gradle

dependencies {
    implementation 'kr.co.prnd:youtube-player-view:x.x.x'
    //implementation 'kr.co.prnd:youtube-player-view:1.3.0'    
}

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How to use

• You can use 2 style

XML style

 <kr.co.prnd.YouTubePlayerView
    android:id="@+id/you_tube_player_view"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:videoId="VIDEO_ID" />

Dynamic code style

<kr.co.prnd.YouTubePlayerView
    android:id="@+id/you_tube_player_view"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

val youTubePlayerView:YouTubePlayerView = findViewById(R.id.you_tube_player_fragment_view)
youTubePlayerView.play(VIDEO_ID)

Fragment

• If you want use this YouTubePlayerView in fragment, you have to use fragment attribute in xml

<kr.co.prnd.YouTubePlayerView
    android:id="@+id/you_tube_player_view"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:fragment="com.example.youtubeplayerview.Sample2Fragment" />

• If you use Proguard, you have to add your fragment class name in your proguard-rules.pro file

-keepnames class com.example.youtubeplayerview.Sample2Fragment

FAQ

- Why don't you need a developer key?

• This is a very strange thing.
• When we use youtube player api, you can use any developer key without empty string
• So YouTubePlayerView set developer key itself
• Check this code

License

Copyright 2019 PRNDcompany

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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