Youtube video autoplay inside UIWebview

ios uiwebview youtube embed autoplay

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Solution 1

Q. If I am correct that (2) is recommended

A. Yes (2) method is for i-devices where no flash support.

Q. Autoplay with (2) is not possible.

A. No autoplay is not possible as of now.

Update: I am able to autoplay youtube video by using Youtube JS APIs see https://developers.google.com/youtube/js_api_reference

Just call playVideo from onPlayerReady

function onPlayerReady(event) {
                event.target.playVideo();                    
            }

Solution 2

I solved the problem by adding the follow code:

webview.mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction=NO;
webview.allowsInlineMediaPlayback=YES;

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msk

Yo! Swift iOS | tvOS | Android | Automation

Updated on June 04, 2022

Comments

msk about 2 years

I found many questions in this forum regarding embedding youtube video and autoplay, but none of them cleared all my doubts.

I found two methods to embed youtube video in UIWebView

NSString *youTubeHTMLTemplate = @"<html><head><style type=\"text/css\">body { background-color: transparent;color: white;}</style></head><body style=\"margin:0\"><embed id=\"yt\" src=\"%@\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"%0.0f\" height=\"%0.0f\"></embed></body></html>"; 
finalHtml = [NSString stringWithFormat:youTubeHTMLTemplate, fullYopuTubeUrl, htmlFrameWidth, htmlFrameHeight];

NSString *youTubeHTMLTemplate = @"<html><body style=\"margin:0;padding:0;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text/html\" width=\"%f\" height=\"%f\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/%@\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen></iframe></body></html>";
finalHtml = [NSString stringWithFormat:youTubeHTMLTemplate, htmlFrameWidth, htmlFrameHeight, videoID];

If I use (1) method and follow the approach given here my video autoplays. Idea is to find button in UIWebView and send touch up event to it.

If I use (2) and follow the same approach video does not autoplay.

I think that the (2) approach is recommended as the (1) is for Flash Videos only (Right?).

Is by any means (2) is possible ? This link says NO.

Can anyone confirm

If I am correct that (2) is recommended
Autoplay with (2) is not possible.

msk over 11 years

This is old thread, but I remember setting mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction = NO alone doesn't helped me. I updated my answer above and I am able to autoplay youtube video.
msk over 11 years

oh may be yes because last I tried it on iOS5 where it did not worked. Though approach in my answer is working for iOS>=5.
dreampowder about 11 years

i've been bashing my head all day because of this line. Thanks!
shim almost 11 years

How do you call that from a UIWebView?