Why does AVPlayerView not have a member named "player" in Swift

Question

I was trying to use AVPlayerView in Swift, but the compiler complaints that it cannot find a member named player in AVPlayerView.

But AVPlayerView clearly does have a property called player.

And other properties or methods are fine. It seems that only player is not recognized.

Answer 1

You explicitly have to import the AVFoundation framework (which defines the AVPlayer class):

import AVKit
import AVFoundation

let playerView = AVPlayerView()
let player = playerView.player

That might be considered as a bug in the (Swift view of the) AVKit framework.