Implementing video view in the Storyboard

Question

I want to build simple video app thats views a video form youtube links thats users add. I didn\'t find \"VideoView\" I mean If image view is for image what is UIView for video

Answer 1

There is no object in the original library that performs video viewing function. But you can import the MediaPlayer framework in your project and add it programmatically.

Here is a Swift example

import MediaPlayer

class Step1ViewController: UIViewController {

var moviePlayer: MPMoviePlayerController?

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    playVideo()
}

func playVideo() {

    let videoView = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(self.view.bounds.origin.x, self.view.bounds.origin.y, self.view.bounds.width, self.view.bounds.height))

    let pathToEx1 = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("myVideoFile", ofType: "mp4")
    let pathURL = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(pathToEx1!)
    moviePlayer = MPMoviePlayerController(contentURL: pathURL)
    if let player = moviePlayer {
        player.view.frame = videoView.bounds
        player.prepareToPlay()
        player.scalingMode = .AspectFill
        videoView.addSubview(player.view)
    }

    self.view.addSubview(videoView)
}

}

As for further customisations and app notifications it has a bunch of in-build possibilities. So check it out.