The AndroidYouTubePlayer is a simple View that can be easily integrated in every Activity/Fragment. The interaction with YouTube is based on the IFrame Player API, running inside of a WebView, therefore the YouTube app is not required to use this player.
This library has been developed out of necessity. The official library provided by Google for the integration of YouTube videos into Android apps is the YouTube Android Player API. Its many bugs and the total lack of support from Google made it impossible to use in production. When I have tried to use it, my app was crashing because of internal bugs in Google's player, (some bugs have 3+ years old bug reports) and, at the moment, no update has been released for almost a year. From there I decided to build my own player.
Apps using this library: (send me an email if you want to add your app to the list)
Add this to your project-level build.gradle:
allprojects {
repositories {
...
maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
}
}
Add this to your module-level build.gradle:
dependencies {
compile 'com.github.PierfrancescoSoffritti:AndroidYouTubePlayer:3.0.0'
}
If you are using ProGuard you might need to add the following option:
-keep public class com.pierfrancescosoffritti.youtubeplayer.** {
public *;
}
-keepnames class com.pierfrancescosoffritti.youtubeplayer.*
A sample project that shows how to use the library is available in the sample module. You can also download the sample apk here.
Please refer to the Wiki of the library for a detailed description on how to use it.
In order to start using the player you need to add the YouTubePlayerView to your layout
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<com.pierfrancescosoffritti.youtubeplayer.player.YouTubePlayerView
android:id="@+id/youtube_player_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</LinearLayout>
Get a reference to the YouTubePlayerView in your code and initialize it
YouTubePlayerView youTubePlayerView = findViewById(R.id.youtube_player_view);
youTubePlayerView.initialize(new YouTubePlayerInitListener() {
@Override
public void onInitSuccess(final YouTubePlayer initializedYouTubePlayer) {
initializedYouTubePlayer.addListener(new AbstractYouTubePlayerListener() {
@Override
public void onReady() {
String videoId = "6JYIGclVQdw";
initializedYouTubePlayer.loadVideo(videoId, 0);
}
});
}
}, true);
The second parameter of the initialize method is a boolean, set it to true if you want the YouTubePlayerView to handle network events, if you set it to false you should handle network events with your own broadcast receiver.
The AbstractYouTubePlayerListener is just a convenience abstract class implementing YouTubePlayerListener, so that is not necessary to implement all the methods of the interface.
The playback of the videos is handled by the YouTubePlayer. You must use that for everything concerning the playback.
The UI of the player is handled by a PlayerUIController, in order to interact with it you must get its reference from the YouTubePlayerView
PlayerUIController uiController = youTubePlayerView.getPlayerUIController();
Use the methods uiController.setCustomAction1 and uiController.setCustomAction2 to add/remove custom actions at the left and right of the play/pause button.
uiController.setCustomAction1(ContextCompat.getDrawable(MainActivity.this, R.drawable.ic_pause_36dp), new View.OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(View view) {
}
});