To run the example project; clone the repo, and run pod install from the Project directory first. For a simple tutorial see this Google Developers article - Using the YouTube Helper Library to embed YouTube videos in your iOS and macOS application.

YouTube-Player-iOS-Helper is available through CocoaPods. To install the library, add the following line to your Podfile and replace "x.y.z" with the latest version.

pod "youtube-ios-player-helper", "~> x.y.z"

Add the following line to the dependencies in your Package.swift:

.package("https://github.com/youtube/youtube-ios-player-helper.git", from: "x.y.z")

Add YouTubeiOSPlayerHelper to your target's dependencies.

.target(name: "TargetName",
        dependencies: [
          "YouTubeiOSPlayerHelper"
        ]
      )

After installing in your project, to use the library:

1. Drag a UIView/NSView the desired size of your player onto your Storyboard.
2. Change the UIView/NSView's class in the Identity Inspector tab to YTPlayerView
3. Import "YTPlayerView.h" in your ViewController.
4. Add the following property to your ViewController's header file:

    @property(nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet YTPlayerView *playerView;

5. Load the video into the player in your controller's code with the following code:

    [self.playerView loadWithVideoId:@"M7lc1UVf-VE"];

6. Run your code!

See the sample project for more advanced uses, including passing additional player parameters and working with callbacks via YTPlayerViewDelegate.

• Ikai Lan
• Ibrahim Ulukaya
• Yoshifumi Yamaguchi

YouTube-Player-iOS-Helper is available under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for more info.