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How to autoplay a YouTube video in a UIWebView swift

I'm having an issue trying to autoplay my UIWebView.

here's my code:

WebVideo.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = true
WebVideo.mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction = false

WebVideo.loadHTMLString("<iframe width=\"\(WebVideo.frame.width)\" height=\"\(WebVideo.frame.height)\" src=\"\(thumbnail)?playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen & autoplay=1 &showinfo=0 &controls=0 autohide=1></iframe>", baseURL: nil)

now This does not work. and I tried with this code too:

 WebVideo.allowsInlineMediaPlayback = true
 WebVideo.mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction = false

 WebVideo.loadHTMLString("<iframe width=\"\(WebVideo.frame.width)\" height=\"\(WebVideo.frame.height)\" src=\"\(thumbnail)&autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe>", baseURL: nil)

It does not work either

Can you help me, how do I autoplay..?

Solution

  • I also faced similar issue and ended up using helper Library of Google

    https://github.com/youtube/youtube-ios-player-helper

        let player = YTPlayerView(frame: CGRect(0,0,view.frame.width , 300))
    let dict = ["modestbranding" : 0,"controls" : 1 ,"autoplay" : 1,"playsinline" : 1,"autohide" : 1,"showinfo" : 0]
    player.loadWithVideoId("video-ID" ,playerVars: dict)
    player.delegate = self

    Call this delegate function then

    func playerViewDidBecomeReady(_ playerView: YTPlayerView) {
    playerView.playVideo()

}