React Native Youtube Player

A React Native module that allows you to play YouTube videos from React Native Apps.

YouTube example video of this lib working on iOS -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGq_y5pF0xA&feature=youtu.be

Table of contents

• Install
• Usage
• Direct launch
• Options
• Response object

Install

NOTE: THIS PACKAGE IS NOW BUILT FOR REACT NATIVE 0.40 OR GREATER! IF YOU NEED TO SUPPORT REACT NATIVE < 0.40, YOU SHOULD INSTALL THIS PACKAGE @0.24

npm install react-native-youtube-player@latest --save

Automatic Installation

react-native link

IMPORTANT NOTE: You'll still need to perform step 4 and 5 for iOS and steps 2, 3, and 5 for Android of the manual instructions below.

Manual Installation

iOS

1. In the XCode's "Project navigator", right click on your project's Libraries folder ➜ Add Files to <...>
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-youtube-player ➜ ios ➜ select RNYoutubePlayer.xcodeproj
3. Add RNYoutubePlayer.a to Build Phases -> Link Binary With Libraries
4. For iOS verify your ATS configuration
5. Drag and Drop "YTPlayerView-iframe-player.html" and "YoutubePlayerViewController.xib" to your main project (in Xcode). Copy those files. You can customize the XIB file in order to localize for example.
6. Compile and have fun

Android

1. Add the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-youtube-player'
   project(':react-native-youtube-player').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-youtube-player/android')

2. Update the android build tools version to 2.2.+ in android/build.gradle:

   buildscript {
       ...
       dependencies {
           classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.2.+' // <- USE 2.2.+ version
       }
       ...
   }
   ...

3. Update the gradle version to 2.14.1 in android/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties:

   ...
   distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.14.1-all.zip
   

4. Add the compile line to the dependencies in android/app/build.gradle:

   dependencies {
       compile project(':react-native-youtube-player')
   }

5. Add the required permissions in AndroidManifest.xml:

   <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

6. Add the import and link the package in MainApplication.java:

   import ar.com.ezequielaceto.reactnative.library.youtubeplayer.YoutubePlayerPackage; // <-- add this import
   
   public class MainApplication extends Application implements ReactApplication {
       @Override
       protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
           return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
               new MainReactPackage(),
               new YoutubePlayerPackage()
           );
       }
   }

This code allows to pass result of request permissions to native part.

## Usage

```javascript
var YoutubePlayer = require('react-native-youtube-player');

var options = {
  title: 'An example project'
};

YoutubePlayer.playVideo("youtube-video-id", options);
```javascript