How to correctly use YouTubePlayerViewController?

[nemecek-filip]

Hello,

in my project I am mostly using YouTubePlayerView which works great, but for one use case I need the YouTubePlayerViewController. I essentially have just a button that should open fullscreen video.

When I create the YouTubePlayerViewController the usage example suggests, it goes inside the safe areas and there is no way to dismiss the controller for the user when I use the full screen presentation.

I thought maybe adding navigation controller is the expected approach, but that did not help either.

Is there something I am missing? Any help/pointers appreciated 🙏

PS: I am happy to use the SwiftUI player if that would work better for my full screen use case.

[SvenTiigi]

Hi @nemecek-filip,

please check out the develop branch which has an updated implementation of the YouTubePlayerViewController which respects the top safe area layout guide.

YouTubePlayerKit/Sources/UI/ViewController/YouTubePlayerViewController.swift

Lines 58 to 65 in 4b494c3

	self.view.addSubview(self.player.webView)
	self.player.webView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
	NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
	self.player.webView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.safeAreaLayoutGuide.topAnchor),
	self.player.webView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.leadingAnchor),
	self.player.webView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.trailingAnchor),
	self.player.webView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.bottomAnchor),
	])

Be aware that the develop branch contains some breaking changes which will be released in the near future.