react-native-yt-player

React Native Youtube Player

A cross-platform Youtube Player component for React Native Built using the official YouTube IFrame Player API.

Features

• No need of API key
• FullScreen Animation
• FullScreen on orientation change.
• Full Control
• Add Custom TopBar
• Fully typed with TypeScript

DEMO

• Checkout the example/ folder for demo source code.

Installation

Open a Terminal in the project root and run:

yarn add react-native-yt-player
yarn add react-native-webview
yarn add @react-native-community/slider
yarn add react-native-reanimated
yarn add react-native-orientation

Link react-native-webview, react-native-slider,react-native-orientation and react-native-reanimated:

react-native link react-native-webview
react-native link @react-native-community/slider
react-native link react-native-reanimated
react-native link react-native-orientation

IMPORTANT: There are additional steps required for react-native-orientation on Android after running react-native link react-native-orientation. Check the this guide to complete the installation.

Quick Start

import React, { Component } from "react";
import { Platform, StyleSheet, Text, View } from "react-native";
import YoutubePlayer from "react-native-yt-player";
 
export default class App extends Component<Props> {
  onFullScreen = fullScreen => {
    console.log("fullscreen ", fullScreen);
  };
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={{ paddingTop: 60 }}>
        <YoutubePlayer
          loop
          topBar={TopBar}
          videoId="Z1LmpiIGYNs"
          autoPlay
          onFullScreen={this.onFullScreen}
          onStart={() => console.log("onStart")}
          onEnd={() => alert("on End")}
        />
 
        <View>
          <Text>
            Lorem, ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Commodi,
            aspernatur rerum, deserunt cumque ipsam unde nam voluptatum tenetur
            cupiditate veritatis autem quidem ad repudiandae sapiente odit
            voluptates fugit placeat ut!
          </Text>
        </View>
      </View>
    );
  }
}
 
const TopBar = ({ play, fullScreen }) => (
  <View
    style={{
      alignSelf: "center",
      position: "absolute",
      top: 0
    }}
  >
    <Text style={{ color: "#FFF" }}> Custom Top bar</Text>
  </View>
);

API reference

Property	Type	Description
videoId(required)	string	Youtube video Id
autoPlay	Boolean	Auto play the video
loop	Boolean	Loop the video
style	object	You can pass this to override some default styles
topBar	(play: boolean, fullScreen: boolean) => React.ReactNode	Function which takes the play and fullScreen status and return a react element to be used as a topBar
showFullScreenButton	Boolean	Display a button to allow user to see the video on fullScreen
onFullScreen	(fullScreen: Boolean) => void	Execute a function on fullScreen changed
onStart	() => void	Execute a function on start
onPause	() => void	Execute a function on pause
onDurationReady	(s: number) => void	Execute a function when the duration is ready
onPlaybackRateChange	() =>void	Execute a function when the playback rate will actually change
onEnd	() => void	Execute a function on end
onError	() => void	Execute a function on error

Check types.tsx file.

You can use Ref to access to Player functions in case you want to have full control :

import React, { Component } from "react";
import { Platform, StyleSheet, Text, View } from "react-native";
import YoutubePlayer from "react-native-yt-player";
 
export default class App extends Component<Props> {
  onFullScreen = fullScreen => {
    console.log("fullscreen ", fullScreen);
  };
 
  play = () => {
    this.player.playVideo();
  };
  pause = () => {
    this.player.pauseVideo();
  };
 
  seekTo = s => {
    this.player.seekTo(s);
  };
  render() {
    return (
      <View style={{ paddingTop: 60 }}>
        <YoutubePlayer
          loop
          ref={ref => {
            this.player = ref;
          }}
          topBar={TopBar}
          videoId="Z1LmpiIGYNs"
          autoPlay
          onFullScreen={this.onFullScreen}
          onStart={() => console.log("onStart")}
          onEnd={() => alert("on End")}
        />
 
        <View>
          <Text>
            Lorem, ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit. Commodi,
            aspernatur rerum, deserunt cumque ipsam unde nam voluptatum tenetur
            cupiditate veritatis autem quidem ad repudiandae sapiente odit
            voluptates fugit placeat ut!
          </Text>
        </View>
      </View>
    );
  }
}
 
const TopBar = ({ play, fullScreen }) => (
  <View
    style={{
      alignSelf: "center",
      position: "absolute",
      top: 0
    }}
  >
    <Text style={{ color: "#FFF" }}> Custom Top bar</Text>
  </View>
);

Licensing

The code in this project is licensed under MIT license.

Credit

react-native-webview-invoke For Making Communication between react-native and webview simple and clean.

react-native-tab-view For the great Project structure.