Flutter plugin for playing or streaming YouTube videos

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Info: Flutter plugin for playing or streaming YouTube videos inline using the official iFrame Player API. Supports both Android and iOS platforms.

YOUTUBE PLAYER FLUTTER

Flutter plugin for playing or streaming YouTube videos inline using the official iFrame Player API.

Supported Platforms:

  • Android
  • iOS
DEMO

Salient Features

  • Inline Playback
  • Supports captions
  • No need for API Key
  • Supports custom controls
  • Retrieves video meta data
  • Supports Live Stream videos
  • Supports changing playback rate
  • Support for both Android and iOS
  • Adapts to quality as per the bandwidth
  • Fast Forward and Rewind on horizontal drag
  • Fit Videos to wide screens with pinch gestures

The plugin uses flutter_inappwebview under-the-hood.

Since flutter_inappwebview relies on Flutter’s mechanism for embedding Android and iOS views, this plugin might share some known issues tagged with the platform-views label.

Requirements

  • Android: minSdkVersion 17 and add support for androidx (see AndroidX Migration)
  • iOS: --ios-language swift, Xcode version >= 11

Setup

iOS

Add these lines to Info.plist

<key>io.flutter.embedded_views_preview</key>
<true/>

For more info, see here

Android

Set minSdkVersion of your android/app/build.gradle file to at least 17.

For more info, see here

Using Youtube Player

YoutubePlayerController _controller = YoutubePlayerController(
    initialVideoId: 'iLnmTe5Q2Qw',
    flags: YoutubePlayerFlags(
        autoPlay: true,
        mute: true,
    ),
);

YoutubePlayer(
    controller: _controller,
    showVideoProgressIndicator: true,
    videoProgressIndicatorColor: Colors.amber,
    progressColors: ProgressColors(
        playedColor: Colors.amber,
        handleColor: Colors.amberAccent,
    ),
    onReady () {
        _controller.addListener(listener);
    },
),

For FullScreen Support

If fullscreen support is required, wrap your player with YoutubePlayerBuilder

YoutubePlayerBuilder(
    player: YoutubePlayer(
        controller: _controller,
    ),
    builder: (context, player){
        return Column(
            children: [
                // some widgets
                player,
                //some other widgets
            ],
        );
    ),
),

Playing live stream videos

Set the isLive property to true in order to change the UI to match Live Video.

Live UI Demo
YoutubePlayerController _controller = YoutubePlayerController(
    initialVideoId: 'iLnmTe5Q2Qw',
    flags: YoutubePLayerFlags(
      isLive: true,
    ),
);

YoutubePlayer(
    controller: _controller,
    liveUIColor: Colors.amber,
),

Want to customize the player?

With v5.x.x and up, use the topActions and bottomActions properties to customize the player.

Some of the widgets bundled with the plugin are:

  • FullScreenButton
  • RemainingDuration
  • CurrentPosition
  • PlayPauseButton
  • PlaybackSpeedButton
  • ProgressBar
YoutubePlayer(
    controller: _controller,
    bottomActions: [
      CurrentPosition(),
      ProgressBar(isExpanded: true),
      TotalDuration(),
    ],
),

Want to play using Youtube URLs ?

The plugin also provides convertUrlToId() method that converts youtube links to its corresponding video ids.

String videoId;
videoId = YoutubePlayer.convertUrlToId("https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBAyRBTfsOU");
print(videoId); // BBAyRBTfsOU

Example

Detailed Example

Quick Links

Download

Download APKs from above(in badge) and try the plugin. APKs are available in Assets of Github release page.

Limitation

Since the plugin is based on platform views. This plugin requires Android API level 20 or greater.

License

Copyright 2020 Sarbagya Dhaubanjar. All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
      copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
      disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
      with the distribution.
    * Neither the name of Google Inc. nor the names of its
      contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
      from this software without specific prior written permission.

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WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
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Download Flutter plugin for playing or streaming YouTube videos source code on GitHub

https://github.com/sarbagyastha/youtube_player_flutter